The next speaker in the 2018-19 Global Africa Colloquium Series is Dr. Adélékè Adéèkó, Humanities Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of English at The Ohio State University.  

Don’t miss his talk, "Londoner, Americanah, Afropolitan: Three States of Being Global in African Literature."

Date: Friday, March 22
Time: 3:30pm
Location: 1080 Derby Hall
Host: Department of Geography

The talk follows in African Anglophone writing the itineraries of a select set of characters whose reactions on their global travels become reference points of Africanist cultural and communal self-assessments. Illustrations are drawn from a mixture of missionary letters, fiction, poetry, and mixed media from the 18th to early 21st century.

Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́'s primary teaching and research interests, about all of which he has published widely and taught consistently at all levels, are Anglophone African literatures, African American literature and Anglophone postcolonial literatures. He maintains fervent teaching and research interests in deconstruction, twentieth-century literary theory and Yorùbá literature and orature.  He is the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (1997), The Slave’s Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (2005), and Arts of Being Yorùbá (2017). He is also editor of Philip Quaque’s Letters to London (2017), and Celebrating D.O. Fagunwa: Aspects African and World Literary History (2017