Education / Training
| Institution and Location | Degree | Completed | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Calabar, Nigeria | BA | 1991 | English and Literary Studies |
| University of Lagos-Akoka, Lagos Nigeria | MA | 1995 | English |
| University of Lagos-Akoka, Lagos Nigeria | Ph.D. | 2003 | English |
Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honours
- Recipient: Council on African Studies (CAS) Visiting Professorship, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centre for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT (2025 -26).
- Recipient: Johannes Gutenberg University’s (Mainz) Research Grant for the project: “Adire as Aso Ebi: China Agency in the Transformation of Captive Textile Culture and Consumption” (2025).
- Recipient: CEDITRAA Fellow at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (2022).
- Recipient: Moi University’s (Kenya) African Cluster Fellowship to undertake the study “Popular Culture and the Rise of Nigeria’s Oral-Visual Culture” (2022)
- Lagos Consultant: “Afriscreenworlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies”, a European Research Council (ERC) project, with Prof. Lindiwe Dovey of SOAS as PI (2020).
- Recipient: Rhodes Artist and Writer (RAW) Residency Fellowship, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (2018).
- Grantee: Point Sud/German Research Council (DFG) Grant to conduct a workshop on the transnational movement of media and cultural goods at Ougadougou, Burkina Faso (2013)
- Collaboration: with Prof. Stephanie Newell (then at the University of Sussex, UK) on the 2.2 Million Euros European Research Council (ERC) project, The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, Dirtpol (2013-2016).
- Grantee: Cadbury Visiting Fellowship, Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham (2010).
