Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a lecturer and researcher at The Nigeria French Language Village, Badagry-Lagos, Nigeria . He's a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, basic python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI, International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), etc.
EDUCATION
2011-2014: B.A. Modern Languages, University of Calabar.
TECHNOLINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM ON THE WEB 3.0: USBEK ET RICA BLOG Yohanna Joseph WALIYA Ezikov Svyat, 2024 The democratisation of the Internet has given rise to a digital society, the most influential, smart, and cumbersome in the history of humanity. English, the most used language on the Internet, accounts for 49.7% of the linguistic content across all digital platforms. The dominance of English has posed a linguistic challenge to Francophone, Hispanophone, Russophone, Lusophone, Sinophone, Arabophone, and many other linguistic communities for several decades. English continuously enriches itself with emerging technological buzzwords thanks to linguistic content disseminated on websites and digital social network applications such as ChatGPT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc. This research focuses on the sociolinguistic competition between English and French in the virtual world, analysing code-switching (English and French) on the French weblog Usbek et Rica, which adopts this style to convey information to its Francophone audience. Can it be said that this illustrates the linguistic homogenisation of English as the language of the Internet to the detriment of other languages, such as French? This article aims to answer this question by examining articles published on usbeketrica.com from 2016 to 2020, using these publications as a data corpus. It also critiques the programming languages of the blog in comparison with natural languages in society, applying the Marie-Anne Paveau’s ecological linguistic approach, which stipulates that all linguistic and extra-linguistic signs produce symmetrical meanings in the digital ecosystem. The findings show that the impact of English on French, in terms of technological language, is increasingly evident on the blog.
Twitterature: Autopoiesis, allopoiesis and generations of literary Twitterbot Language Discourse and Society, 2023
Musicolinguistics: Deciphering the Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Cryptolect Language Discourse and Society, 2019
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Metadata Analysis of the Generative AI Usefulness for African Languages YJ Waliya, MM Okon Preprints , 2026 2026
Retraction notice to" Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent … N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ... Heliyon 11 (13) , 2025 2025
La traduction des métaphores, des répétitions et la traduction onomastique dans la version anglaise de L’enfant noir de Camara Laye YJ Waliya, AA Ajimase Alkebulan: A Journal of West and East African Studies 5 (1), 68-82 , 2025 2025
Fading world YJ Waliya Taper, https://taper.badquar.to/15/fading_world , 2025 2025
Ekang YJ Waliya Genius Books , 2025 2025
Computational exploration of the chemical impact of cobalt group transition metals (TM: Co, Rh, Ir) on surface-tailored silicon carbide nanotubes (TM@SiCNTs) for … OC Godfrey, YJ Waliya, EK Aidoo, OM Oyebanji, M Runde Journal of Nanoparticle Research 27 (1), 18 , 2025 2025 Citations: 5
« Pharmakon » pour les usagers : Analyse des sentiments du récit dans WhatsApp Y Waliya, G Mbey Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 2 (1), 38-57 , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
Editorial: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into the African Humanities Scholarship R Ajah, Y Waliya Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 2 (1), ii-iii , 2024 2024
Editorial: Digital Humanities and Interdisciplinary Scholarship R Ajah, Y Waliya Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 1 (2), ii-iii , 2024 2024
Technodiscursive Analysis of Twitterbot Poetry YJ Waliya, MA Tijani Digital Studies in Language and Literature 1 (1), 1-24 , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
Technolinguisme et multilinguisme sur web 3.0-Usbek et Rica YJ Waliya Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 22 (3), 118-130 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
From Literature 2.0 to Twitterature or Xerature: The Birth and Canonicity of Nigerian Xerature YJ Waliya, AA Ajimase, FU David Digital Studies in Languages and Literature 1 (1-2), 142-157 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms YJ Waliya Afrique(s) en Mouvement (AeM), 55-64 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
Phantasmogorical simulation theory of metaversal literature YJ Waliya The Future of Text IV 4, 112-114 , 2023 2023
Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ... Heliyon 9 (7) , 2023 2023 Citations: 15
Twittérature : autopoïèse, allopoïèse et générations de Twitterbot littéraire YJ Waliya Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
Twittérature: analyse technodiscursive de la Twitterbot poésie de Leonardo Flores YJ Waliya Master thesis , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
Post Digital Text (PDT) in Virtual Reality (VR) YJ Waliya The Future of Text 3, 644-645 , 2022 2022
E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature YJ Waliya Texto Digital 18 (2), 145-160 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Ecopoiesis and econoesis of Okam's Difu YJ Waliya GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 5 (2), 136-143 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ... Heliyon 9 (7) , 2023 2023 Citations: 15
Computational exploration of the chemical impact of cobalt group transition metals (TM: Co, Rh, Ir) on surface-tailored silicon carbide nanotubes (TM@SiCNTs) for … OC Godfrey, YJ Waliya, EK Aidoo, OM Oyebanji, M Runde Journal of Nanoparticle Research 27 (1), 18 , 2025 2025 Citations: 5
Digital Activism & “Botification” of Janusz Korczak’s Concepts in “Twitterature” YJ Waliya WHAT WOULD KORCZAK DO? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children’s … , 2020 2020 Citations: 5
« Pharmakon » pour les usagers : Analyse des sentiments du récit dans WhatsApp Y Waliya, G Mbey Multilingual African Digital Semiotics and E-lit Journal (MADSEJ) 2 (1), 38-57 , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
Technodiscursive Analysis of Twitterbot Poetry YJ Waliya, MA Tijani Digital Studies in Language and Literature 1 (1), 1-24 , 2024 2024 Citations: 4
Twittérature: lecture symétrique du Twitterbot-théâtre YJ Waliya Exploring Contemporary Digital Poetics, 217-244 , 2022 2022 Citations: 4
Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI): When Transhumanism (H+) Meets Digital Humanities (DH) YJ Waliya International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies 7 (1), 39-49 , 2020 2020 Citations: 4
Technolinguisme et multilinguisme sur web 3.0-Usbek et Rica YJ Waliya Ezikov Svyat (Orbis Linguarum) 22 (3), 118-130 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms YJ Waliya Afrique(s) en Mouvement (AeM), 55-64 , 2024 2024 Citations: 3
From Literature 2.0 to Twitterature or Xerature: The Birth and Canonicity of Nigerian Xerature YJ Waliya, AA Ajimase, FU David Digital Studies in Languages and Literature 1 (1-2), 142-157 , 2024 2024 Citations: 2
Twittérature : autopoïèse, allopoïèse et générations de Twitterbot littéraire YJ Waliya Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
Twittérature: analyse technodiscursive de la Twitterbot poésie de Leonardo Flores YJ Waliya Master thesis , 2023 2023 Citations: 2
E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature YJ Waliya Texto Digital 18 (2), 145-160 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Ecopoiesis and econoesis of Okam's Difu YJ Waliya GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 5 (2), 136-143 , 2022 2022 Citations: 2
Musicolinguistics: Deciphering the Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Cryptolect YJ Waliya Language Discourse and Society 7 (1), 43-57 , 2019 2019 Citations: 2
La récolte de vie YJ Waliya Ifrikiya édition , 2013 2013 Citations: 2
Botification of the Twitterary Protest Poetry: @Protestitas’ Protestitas YJ Waliya Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 22 (Open) , 2020 2020 Citations: 1
Contrastive study of the trend of metamorphosis of political activism using theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first century YJ Waliya International Journal of Pedagogy, Innovation and New Technologies (IJPINT … , 2017 2017 Citations: 1
Calabar lesbian cryptic languages YJ Waliya Symbolic violence in socio-educational contexts, 112 , 2017 2017 Citations: 1
Metadata Analysis of the Generative AI Usefulness for African Languages YJ Waliya, MM Okon Preprints , 2026 2026
GRANT DETAILS
AWARDS & PRIZES
Scrimba scholarship 29th September 2022-29th March 2023
MAELD&ADELD: Emerging Open Scholarship Award:
Honourable Mention, Canadian-Social Knowledge Institute . 2022.
International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and social media [ICWSM ] Scholarship . 2021-2022.
Hastac Scholarship 2021-2023.
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020.
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow 2020.
Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow 2020.
Volkswagen Foundation & LSSDH Scholarship 2018.
Homboldt Colleg & LSSDH Scholarship 2017.
Prof. Margrate Okon’s Prize, University of Calabar, 2015.
Book worm of the year, LANSA, University of Calabar, 2013.
Federal Government Scholarship Ref. FSBA/FGSS/UG/13/084 2013.
