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Oliver Twist, popular music and electoral nostalgia in Nigeria

ABSTRACT Electoral nostalgia involves a return in thought to an electoral period or to a deed from an electoral period in one’s past. This essay is concerned with the electoral engagements of Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, better known by his moniker D’banj, as these relate to the 2011 presidential election bid of Nigeria’s erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan. The essay assesses the role of D’banj as campaign songwriter and observes his immediate post-2011-election works as reactionary performances to the hullabaloo generated by his involvement in President Jonathan’s campaign. D’banj’s post-election record ‘Oliver Twist’ (2011) is conceptualized as evidence of electoral nostalgia in popular music. The essay offers a critical look into the single by engaging the ‘Oliver Twist’ concept’s English origins, the trigger for the appropriation of the concept by D’banj, the mastermind of the resulting transformative work, its calculated dissemination to target audiences, and the successes it garnered.