ABOUT ME
I am a literary scholar–writer working in postcolonial literary studies, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities, with a particular focus on Nigerian and African literary traditions within the Global South. My research examines how literature engages 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 and postcolonial theory, with long-standing engagement with African literary texts. My MA research examined questions of individual will and agency 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. Together, these projects established a durable scholarly foundation in Nigerian literature and its political, cultural, and ethical concerns.
My current research builds on this foundation by turning explicitly toward environmental questions in postcolonial contexts. I am particularly interested in 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, the energy humanities, and world literature, my work approaches literature as a critical site where environmental injustice is narrated, contested, and reimagined.
Alongside my academic research, I maintain an active engagement with writing as a critical practice. I approach writing not as a departure from scholarship but as a complementary mode of thinking through narrative, form, and ethical representation. This practice informs my scholarly attention to storytelling and literary structure and continues to develop through independent writing, literary workshops, and research-led creative work.
Academic Research Focus
Postcolonial literary studies
Ecocriticism and environmental humanities
Environmental narratives and ecological conflict in literature
African and Global South literary traditions
Literature, land, and environmental violence
Narratives of resistance and social transformation
BEYOND SCHOLARSHIP
Mediterranean Cooking
Food, Memory, and Cultural Continuity
Mediterranean cooking is one of the ways I engage culture beyond the written text. Through food, I explore regional histories, seasonal rhythms, and forms of knowledge that are often transmitted through practice rather than documentation. Cooking becomes a method of attentiveness, requiring patience, care, and an awareness of how tradition is sustained through repetition and variation. It offers an embodied way of thinking about culture, memory, and inheritance.
Literary and Art Tourism
Discipline, Focus, and Endurance
Tennis provides a necessary counterbalance to intellectual work through its demands on concentration, rhythm, and sustained effort. The sport cultivates discipline and presence, qualities that closely parallel the conditions required for close reading and extended writing. Its solitary structure reinforces habits of focus, resilience, and attentiveness to process rather than outcome.
Literary and Art Tourism
Reading Place and Encountering History
Literary and art tourism allows me to encounter texts, artworks, and historical movements spatially. Visiting literary sites, museums, and cultural landscapes transforms reading into a situated experience, where place becomes an interpretive framework. These encounters deepen my engagement with world literature and visual culture by foregrounding context, material history, and the relationship between art, geography, and memory.
These are the practices I return to when I am not working within scholarship.
Editorial Project (Forthcoming)
I am currently developing an independent literary magazine focused on literature, ecology, place, and environmental imagination. The publication will feature essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews engaging ecological thought through literary form.
Launch details will be announced soon.