ABOUT ME
I am a literary scholar working in postcolonial literary studies, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities, with a research focus on African and Global South literatures. My research interrogates how literature theorises environmental conflict, colonial and postcolonial dispossession, extractive economies, and ecological resistance, with sustained attention to narrative form and the representation of environmental injustice.
I hold a Master of Arts degree in Literature from the University of Lagos and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. My academic training is grounded in close textual analysis, postcolonial theory, and African literary studies. My MA research examined questions of agency and subjectivity in the dramatic works of Wole Soyinka and Femi Osofisan, while my undergraduate research explored language, meaning, and cultural context in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. These projects established a foundational engagement with Nigerian literature and its political, cultural, and ethical concerns.
My current research extends this foundation by foregrounding environmental questions in postcolonial contexts. I examine how literary texts register ecological violence, articulate forms of resistance, and negotiate the relationship between environment, community, memory, and historical experience. Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, my work approaches literature as a critical site where environmental injustice is narrated, contested, and reimagined.
Alongside academic research, I engage writing as a critical and epistemological practice, treating narrative and form as modes of theoretical inquiry. This engagement informs my scholarly attention to storytelling, aesthetics, and ethical representation and continues through independent writing, literary workshops, and research-led creative projects.
Academic Research Focus
Postcolonial literary studies
Ecocriticism and the environmental humanities
African and Global South literary traditions
Environmental narratives and ecological conflict
Literature, land, and environmental violence
Narratives of resistance and social transformation
BEYOND SCHOLARSHIP
Food, Memory, and Cultural Continuity
Cooking offers a way to engage with culture beyond textual analysis. Through regional cuisines and seasonal practices, I explore embodied forms of cultural transmission, memory, and tradition, attending to how knowledge is sustained through practice and repetition.
Discipline and Endurance
Tennis provides a counterbalance to intellectual work through its demands on concentration, rhythm, and sustained effort. The sport cultivates habits of discipline and attentiveness that parallel the conditions required for close reading and extended research writing.
Place, Art, and Literary Encounter
Literary and art tourism enables me to encounter texts and artworks, foregrounding the relationship between place, material history, and interpretation. Visiting cultural landscapes transforms reading into a situated practice and deepens my engagement with literary and visual cultures.
These are the practices I return to beyond scholarly work.