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60. Oblee Economy: Class, Gender Wars, and the Case against Detty December ft. P0liticalbaby (@Mao_0k)
Episode 60
Monday, 15 December, 2025
In our latest episode, we host the the amazing PoliticalBaby (@Mao_0k), a cultural theorist, video essayist and scholar of contemporary Nigerian anthropology. We start off discussing the constraints of social media as a space for education, politics, interrogation and digital activism. We define her works as a living archive and an effort to preserve collective memory in the playground of Elon Musk and the Nigerian state.We work through barren status symbols in Nigerian society and class consciousness in the collective Nigerian headspace. We tackle the parameters of class definition in comparison to other countries, the tangibility of pseudo class structures and the interpretation of wealth in the Nigerian context.We then consider the gendered dimension of status with women being the canvas of consumption while simultaneously being at the sharpest end of critique. We examine Nigerian men, structural dependency and culpability in maintaining hierarchical gendered relations. We talk about everything from the economy and aesthetics of clubbing to Detty December, Third world labour, transactionalism and foreign exchange.Are Nigeria men the worst? Who is online political content created for realistically? How does one draw the line between content creation and digital activism? Listen to what we think and let us know your thoughts in the comments.For your attention guys..
