- Source
- Global Journal of Social Sciences
- Published
- 23 Oct 2026
- Authors
- A. Udoka
Excerpt from source
This article argues that aesthetic practices among the Anaañ constitute governance infrastructure. Through analysis of three protocols — the movement of awieagwo¹, the colour of nnom, and the objects of Ekpo — the paper demonstrates that aesthetic elements function as systems of access control, rights allocation and sovereignty. Drawing on the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, Nicholas Mirzoeff’s theory of visuality (2011), Édouard Glissant’s theory of opacity (1997), Arnold Udoka’s ethnography of Anaañ colour (1984), and archival ethnography including Messenger (1960), the study shows that performance, material and chromatic protocols encode law and regulate circulation…
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