Dr. Omolola Risikat Akande

I am a middle career scholar of the city. From the conceptualisation to the production of my PhD Thesis which looks at the relationship between literature and the city, I have been a scholar of the city. I am also a fiction writer. My area of specialization is Prose Fiction/ African Literature/Literatures of the City. My research focuses on literatures of the city, feminist activism, cultural and postcolonial studies and literary theory. I have conducted extensive research in representations of urban spaces in the African novel. My book, The City in the African Novel: A Thematic Rendering of Urban Spaces undertakes a critical analysis of sixteen African novels that I believe are representative of city trends. As a fiction writer, my creative work concerns representations of the city in African Prose Fiction. I have published four novels and a collection of short stories.