{"id":1289,"date":"2025-05-29T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/?page_id=1289"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:02:30","slug":"omolola-risikat-akande","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/omolola-risikat-akande\/","title":{"rendered":"OMOLOLA RISIKAT AKANDE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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TITLE: DR.<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>NAME: OMOLOLA RISIKAT AKANDE \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

POSITION: SENIOR LECTURER<\/strong><\/p>

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

DEGREE<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

COMPLETION DATE<\/strong><\/p><\/td>

FIELD OF STUDY<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria<\/p><\/td>

B.A<\/p><\/td>

08\/1986<\/p><\/td>

English<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

University of Lagos, Lagos Nigeria<\/p><\/td>

MPA<\/p><\/td>

05\/2002<\/p><\/td>

Public Administration\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria<\/p><\/td>

M.A<\/p><\/td>

05\/2006<\/p><\/td>

English<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria<\/p><\/td>

PhD<\/p><\/td>

02\/2013<\/p><\/td>

English<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

\u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Personal Statement<\/strong><\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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<\/em> 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.<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0 Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours<\/strong><\/p>

My novel, What It Take<\/em>s was Joint-Winner Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for best book in Prose Fiction, October, 2017.<\/p>

My collection of short stories, Suitors Are Scarce in Lagos<\/em> won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for best book in the Short Story category, October, 2022.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

My novel, The Truth about Sadia<\/em> was endorsed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) \u201cas a worthy material for advocacy and public enlightenment on substance abuse,\u201d January, 2023.<\/p>

\u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0 \u00a0Selected Most Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>

  1. AKANDE<\/strong>, Lola. (2024) (a) \u201cFantasy and the Origins of the City in the African Novel.\u201d in Cin\u00e9tismes<\/em>, A Multidisciplinary Journal on Language, University of Douala, Cameroon. Special double-number, N\u00b01_The influence of African literature: 30 years of creation and thought, special issue N-2, December 5, 2024. ISSN L2791 \u2013 2973\/E-ISSN 2791 \u2013 2981. P. 100-122.<\/li><\/ol>

    \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DOAJ: https:\/\/doaj.org\/toc\/2791 Available online at: https:\/\/www.revue-cinetismes.com\/hors-serie-n2\/<\/a><\/p>

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. AKANDE<\/strong>, Lola. (2024) (c). \u201cPostcolonial Anarchy and Minority Discourses in Elnathan John\u2019s Born on a Tuesday<\/em>, E. E, Sule\u2019s Sterile Sky<\/em>, and Edify Yakusak\u2019s After They Left<\/em>.\u201d In International Journal for Communication, Research and Development<\/em>. A Publication of the Panafrican University Institute, Benin Republic. Vol. 2. No. 15 \u2013 Jan. 2024. ISSN 1840 \u2013 6874. 52-71.<\/p>

    \u00a0<\/p>

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Collaborators\/Networks<\/strong><\/p>

    i. Prof. Timothy Nubi, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria<\/p>

    ii Dr. David Goss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel<\/p>

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    TITLE: DR. \u00a0NAME: OMOLOLA RISIKAT AKANDE \u00a0\u00a0 POSITION: SENIOR LECTURER INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE COMPLETION DATE FIELD OF STUDY University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria B.A 08\/1986 English University of Lagos, Lagos Nigeria MPA 05\/2002 Public Administration\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria M.A 05\/2006 English University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria PhD 02\/2013 English \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Personal Statement \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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. \u00a0 \u00a0 Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honours My novel, What It Takes was Joint-Winner Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for best book in Prose Fiction, October, 2017. My collection of short stories, Suitors Are Scarce in Lagos won the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Prize for best book in the Short Story category, October, 2022.\u00a0\u00a0 My novel, The Truth about Sadia was endorsed by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) \u201cas a worthy material for advocacy and public enlightenment on substance abuse,\u201d January, 2023. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Selected Most Recent Publications AKANDE, Lola. (2024) (a) \u201cFantasy and the Origins of the City in the African Novel.\u201d in Cin\u00e9tismes, A Multidisciplinary Journal on Language, University of Douala, Cameroon. Special double-number, N\u00b01_The influence of African literature: 30 years of creation and thought, special issue N-2, December 5, 2024. ISSN L2791 \u2013 2973\/E-ISSN 2791 \u2013 2981. P. 100-122. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 DOAJ: https:\/\/doaj.org\/toc\/2791 Available online at: https:\/\/www.revue-cinetismes.com\/hors-serie-n2\/ \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2. AKANDE, Lola. (2024) (c). \u201cPostcolonial Anarchy and Minority Discourses in Elnathan John\u2019s Born on a Tuesday, E. E, Sule\u2019s Sterile Sky, and Edify Yakusak\u2019s After They Left.\u201d In International Journal for Communication, Research and Development. A Publication of the Panafrican University Institute, Benin Republic. Vol. 2. No. 15 \u2013 Jan. 2024. ISSN 1840 \u2013 6874. 52-71. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Collaborators\/Networks i. Prof. Timothy Nubi, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria ii Dr. David Goss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1289\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.unilag.edu.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}