Abimbola Adunni Adelakun (born 15 September) is a Nigerian writer.
Biography
Born in
Ibadan
Ibadan (, ; ) is the Capital city, capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the List of Nigerian cities by population, third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano (city), Kano, with a total populatio ...
, SouthWest
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
, she was educated at the
University of Ibadan
The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public university located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Initially founded as the University College Ibadan in 1948, it maintained its affiliation with the University of London. In 1962, it became an independe ...
, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts degree in communication and language arts. She graduated as a Ph.D. holder in dance and theater at the
University of Texas, Austin.
She works with ''
The Punch
''The Punch'' is a Nigerian daily newspaper founded on August 8, 1970. Punch Nigeria Limited is registered under the Companies Act of 1968 to publish newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. The newspaper's aim is said to be to "inform, edu ...
'' newspaper in
Lagos
Lagos ( ; ), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria. With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, the most populous urban area on the African continent, and on ...
, Nigeria, as a writer. She studied modern African culture as they are lived and performed through the disciplinary lenses of performance, gender, Africana, and Yoruba studies. She writes academic articles which have been published in different journals including the Journal of Women and Religion, and Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Some of her articles include ‘Coming to America: Race, Class, Nationality and Mobility in “African” hip hop’ 2013; Pentecostal Panopticism and the Phantasm of “The Ultimate Power” 2018; ‘The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-ethics’ 2020; ‘Black Lives Matter! Nigerian Lives Matter!: Language and Why Black Performance Matters’ 2019; ‘Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal politics in Africa’ 2018; ‘Godmentality: Pentecostalism as performance in Nigeria’ 2017; ‘The Ghosts of Performance Past: Theatre, Gender, Religion and Cultural Memory’ 2017; ‘Spectacular Prophecies: Examining Pentecostal Power in Africa’ 2017; ‘Remixing Religion: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference’ 2014; ‘Yoruba Studies Review’ and ‘I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary’
She is the author of the novel ''Under the Brown Rusted Roofs''.
References
External links
''Under The Brown Rusted Roofs'' - review in ''Saraba Magazine''Nigerian writers' tour starts on a good note - ''Guardian''
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nigerian women writers
University of Ibadan alumni
Writers from Ibadan
21st-century Nigerian writers
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