Afrobeats, Moral Disengagement and the Cultural Politics of Online Fraud: The Difference Between a Twitch and a Wink Is Vast
Afrobeats, Moral Disengagement and the Cultural Politics of Online Fraud: The Difference Between a Twitch and a Wink Is Vast
Suleman Lazarus Olatunji Olaigbe Scipio E. Lazarus a London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) London, UKb University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africac CybAfriqué Media, Ilorin, Nigeriad University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeriae University of Greenwich, London, UKSuleman Lazarus holds all his university degrees from the UK, including a PhD in Cybercrime and Criminology from the University of Portsmouth. He is an Associate Editor of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journal Digital Threats: Research and Practice. Dr Lazarus developed the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF), which classifies cybercrime motivations into socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical categories. He also introduced and developed the concept of “Scholar-baiting,” a subgenre of spear phishing defined as a narrative-based form of social engineering in which cybercriminals exploit epistemic trust, academic identity, and emotionally charged narratives to deceive researchers and scholars. He has published on topics including “prosperity theology”, “citation politics”, “nomophobia”, “cybercriminal networks”, and “Hustle Kingdoms”. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Life Writing, Security Journal, Journal of Human Trafficking, and Critical Research on Religion. His research spans Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.Olatunji Olaigbe is a journalist and researcher specialising in media, society, and critical technology. He leads research and editorial at CybAfrique, a media and intelligence initiative focused on African cyber, data, and information security. His work explores cybersecurity, disinformation, and digital culture, and has been featured in Wired, Foreign Policy, Rest of World, and The Record (Recorded Future), among others.Scipio E. Lazarus is a student. His work sits at the intersection of digital technologies, society, and harm, with a particular interest in how emerging technologies shape everyday life for vulnerable and marginalised communities.