Title

Professor

Degree

B.A English, M.A American Literature, Ph.D in African Literature,Gender Theory

Organization

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Fellow of the Center for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Fellow of Network for Setting an Agenda for Women's Studies in Nigeria, Director, African Research in Progress.

Awards, Honors, Fellowships, etc.

USIA/National Endowment for Humanities, University of California Berkeley, 1990, Rockefeller Fellow in African Cultural and Gender Studies at Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1991/92, Commonwealth Fellow, University of Kent in Canterbury, 1994/95. Also Foundation Associate of the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, 1997, Research Fellow, Nordic African Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, 1999 and Participant, International Scholars' Program on "The 2000 African Internet Connectivity Project," University of Michigan, East Lansing, Michigan, May, 2000.

National Coordinator for Nigeria, Women Writing Africa, a project of the Feminist Press, New York..

Comments

Publications include:

-Womanism and African Consciousness: Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press. 1997

-Gender Perceptions and Development in Africa: Lagos: Arrabon Academic Publishers, 1998.

-Zulu Sofola: Her Life and Her Works, Ibadan: Caltop Publishers, 1999.

Editor in Chief:

Journal of Gender and Development in Africa, Center for Gender and Social Policy Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

ISALA: Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

-Zulu Sofola: Her Life and Her Works: Ibadan, Caltop Publishers, 1999.