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Oladapo Ajayi
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Oladapo O. Ajayi is a PhD student at the Department of African Languages and Literature.
His current research project investigates “Fuji Music as Everyday Narratives in Yoruba
Society.” He obtained MA degree in Intercultural Anglophone Studies from Bayreuth
University, Germany in 2016 and a Bachelor in French at the Department of Foreign
Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria in 2010.
Education
October 2017 till date | PhD Student, University of Bayreuth, Department of African Languages and Literatures |
May. 2013- April 2016 | Masters of Arts in Intercultural Anglophone Studies (MAIS), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany |
Nov. 2005 – April.2010 | Bachelor of French, Department of Foreign Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. |
Workshops, Summer School and Conferences
12th-14th, September 2017 | Participant at the “Ife-Oxford International Early Career Workshop”, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria |
June 2017 | Paper Presentation “An Uncommon Preacher: Contemporary Female singers and Yoruba Christian Identity Transformations” - A paper presented at a conference “Mediations of Religious Narratives, Representations and Performed Texts” funded by Humboldt Foundation held at the University of Bayreuth GW 1, Room K5. The 13th June 2017. |
April 2017 | Participant at the ‘Rural Future Lab’ and the G20 conference ‘Future of the Rural World. Innovation- Youth-Employment’ Berlin, Germany organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in cooperation with Engagement global, as well as the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ). |
March 2017 | 35th AGGN Workshop “Intra-state conflict”, Bonn, Germany. |
Oct. 2016 | Conference participation “Thinking through Concepts/Thinking Through Data. Processes of Mediation and Pitfalls in Academic Dealings with African Lifeworlds", Bayreuth, Germany. |
June 2016 | Paper Presentation at the Post-Colonial Shakespeare and Transcultural Knowledge Workshop: “Yoruba Ifa Divination: Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth”. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. |
June 2016 | Participant at the African Good Governance Network (AGGN) Workshop, “Migration, Refugees & Diaspora”, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. |
April 2016 | Speaker at a Workshop on Good Governance: “Follow the Money Initiative” organised by Model African Union (MAU) Conference, Bayreuth, Germany. |
December 2015 | Participant at the African Good Governance Network (AGGN) Workshop; “Governance and Participation”, Stuttgart, Germany. |
June 2015 | Paper Presentation at the 41st African Literature Association Annual Conference, “Gender in Motion: An analysis of St. Janet`s Blackberry”. Bayreuth |
Documentary (Film)
February 2018 "Concepts on the Move - in-between past, presences, absences and the future" A Film project of the Working Group E, Academy of Advanced African Studies, Bayreuth
Affiliations
August 2017 Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Ile- Ife, Nigeria.
October 2017 PhD Scholarship Award, Evangelisches Studienwerk Viligst, Germany
April 2017 Senior Fellow at the African Good Governance Network (AGGN) an initiative of the Deutscher Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD) and Arnold Bergstraesser Institut.
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Research Interests
South African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures, African Science Fiction and Fantasy, South African Film.
Professional Bodies
Member of the Science Fiction Research Association.
PhD In progress
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
Literatures in African Languages
Oladapo Ajayi
Phd Student
University of Bayreuth
Literatures in African languages
95440 Bayreuth