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1. Literary Theory and CriticismVolume 25, Issue 1 (September 2025)pp. 129–146PDF of Oral Tradition in the Age of TikTok: Rethinking Performance, Audience, and the Griot in Nigerian Digital Culture

   Oral Tradition in the Age of TikTok: Rethinking Performance, Audience, and the Griot in Nigerian Digital Culture

   Eden Benefit Jooda

   platform studies scholarship on algorithmic aesthetic constraint, the paper proposes the concept of compressed orality to describe the specific aesthetic formation that may emerge when Nigerian oral storytelling meets TikTok … platform architecture. Compressed orality tends to preserve the performative surfaces of oral tradition whilst foreclosing its structural and epistemological depths. The paper identifies three structural foreclosures: the abolition of live