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Before
my present appointment as an Associate Professor of Yoruba Language
and Literature in the Department of African and Asian Languages
and Literatures at the University of Florida, I was at the Department
of African Languages and Literatures of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife in Nigeria, where I rose to the Readership
position. Between 1999 and 2001, I was a post-doctoral research
Fellow of the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the
Institute for African Studies University of Bayreuth in Germany,
and at the Center of West African Studies University of Birmingham
in the United Kingdom, working on Yoruba Palace Poetry. In addition,
I am about to complete a book manuscript on the oral historical
tradition of the famous city of Oyo, to be published under the
Bayreuth African Studies Series of the Institute of African
Studies at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. For the next
few years however, my research interest will be focused on Yoruba
popular culture, especially video-films.
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| Selected Publications: 2001. "Yoruba Royal Bards: Their Relevance in the Society" in Nordic Journal of African Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland Vol.10:1, pp. 89-106. 2000.
"Yoruba Palace Poetry Within a Context of Change"
in Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (AAP) Institut Fur
Afrikanistik, University of Koln, No 62, pp. 71-92.
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