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 Horseman; Studies in Drama; Classificatory 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.