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Degrees and Institutions:
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991
M.A., Cornell University, 1989
M. A., University of Ife, Nigeria, 1985
B.A. (First Class Honours), University of Ife, Nigeria, 1982
Research Interests:
Anglophone Literatures and Cultural Studies (Africa and Caribbean); African American Literature; Postcolonial Cultural Studies; Literary and Film Criticism and Theory; History, Theory, and Sociology of Drama; Popular Culture Studies; Modernity and Africa and the African Diaspora.
Some Current Projects:
--Political Cartooning in Africa
--A Cultural Biography of the Postcolonial African State
--The Audience: A History of African American Literature
--Performing Postcoloniality: Derek Walcott and the Caribbean Archipelago
Some Courses Taught:
AF 297: African and African American Linkages
AF 402: Theory of African Literature
AF 413: Contemporary African and Caribbean Drama
AF 983: African Diaspora – Theory and Practice
EN 516: African Literature
EN 516: Postcolonial Literature
EN 591: African and African Diaspora Literature
EN 591: Black Women Dramatists
EN 591: African Diaspora Cultural Studies
EN 823: Postcolonial Cultural Studies
Selected Publications:
Books authored
2009: Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics. (New and expanded
African regional). Ibadan: BookCraft.
At BookCraftAfrica
2004: Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics. Indiana University Press.
Selected as Finalist, “Best Research in World Music” award category, 2005, by
the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
On Amazon
1995: Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in
African, African American and Caribbean Drama, Oxford UP.
On Amazon
Books Co-edited
2010: African Diaspora and the Disciplines, Indiana University Press. With James
Sweet.
On Amazon
2007: African Literature: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Blackwell
Publishers. With Ato Quayson.
On Amazon
2004: African Drama and Performance. Indiana University Press. With John Conteh-
Morgan.
On Amazon
Articles, Chapters
2011: “The Paddle That Speaks English: Africa, NGOs, and the Archaeology of an
Unease,” Research in African Literatures 42.2 (Summer 2011): 46-59.
2011: “On Postcoloniality and Alienation: Abiola Irele’s ‘In Praise of Alienation’
Reconsidered.” 99-112 in Africa in the World and the World in Africa: Essays in Honor of Abiola Irele. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011.
2009: “Political Critique and Resistance in African Fiction,” 70-86 IN Teaching the
African Novel, ed. Gaurav Desai. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
2009: “Thinking Afro-Futures: A Preamble to an Epistemic History.” South Atlantic
Quarterly 108.3 (Summer 2009): 449-457).
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