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Ademola O. Dasylva

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Ademola O. Dasylva is a Professor of African and Oral literatures, a poet, biographer, literary theorist and critic; Coordinator, Ibadan Cultural Studies Group, (a study group for the promotion of excellence in African and African American cultural studies); convener, 2008 Ibadan International Conference on African Literature (IICAL); Convener of The Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC); Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Session 374, Austria, 2000. Prof. Dasylva is a native of Ado-Ekiti (Aduloju family), Ekiti State.He teaches Drama, Poetry, the African Novel, and Oral Literature/Folklore Studies at the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

He is the only African on Advisory Board, International Association of Epic Studies, Beijing, China.

Prof Dasylva is a great enthusiast of global scholarly linkages. His scholarly publications include, Understanding Wole Soyinka: Death and the King’s HorsemanStudies in DramaClassificatory Paradigms in African Oral Narrative (a monograph), co-author (with Dr. Toyin Jegede), Studies in Poetry. His collection of poems, Songs of Odamolugbe won the 2006 ANA/Cadbury National Award for Poetry. He is well traveled and widely published in local and international scholarly journals and books.

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Personal experience

He had his B.A. Hons, (English) and M.A. (African Literature) from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Ile-Ife; and Ph.D in African Literature, from Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Between 2009 and 2012, Prof Dasylva successfully coordinated the University of Ibadan Museum Development Programme (a MacArthur/UI funded project). As Director of General Studies Programme of the University of Ibadan between January 2010 and September 2012, Prof Dasylva was the Principal Investigator (PI) of the E-Class project between 2011 and 2012 (a project funded by ETI/PHEA, South Africa). He was pioneer winner, University of Ibadan Award of Excellence for Community Development 2012.

Honors & awards

In March 2009, at the Africa Conference, Professor Ademola Dasylva won the 2009 Distinguished Africanist Award for Research Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

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