Sakiru Adebayo
James and Eva Good Chair in English Literature
PhD; University of the Witwatersrand, 2020
MA; University of Ibadan, 2016
BA; University of Ibadan, 2014
University College 4414
519-661-2111
sadebay@uwo.ca
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Teaching and Research
I teach and research primarily in the fields of African and African diasporic literature. I also teach – and have written extensively on – memory studies. My first book, Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa (finalist for the MSA First Book Award) explores the ways in which fiction represents and sometimes becomes the source of friction in postcolonial Africa. I am currently working on a SSHRC-funded second book project on the diasporisation of African literature. I won the Nigerian Prize for Literary Criticism in 2022 and the Amilcar Cabral Prize in 2023. My papers have appeared in journals such as Parallax, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry, Postcolonial Text, Research in African Literatures, Journal of African Literature Association, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Museum International, Journal of African Cinemas, Memory Studies and many more. I am happy to supervise graduate students interested in African, Afropolitan, and the new African diaspora literature.
