Draft:Samuel Senayon Olaoluwa

Dr. Samuel Senayon Olaoluwa is the Head of department of Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He acted as Director of Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria from 2021 - 2022. He was the Pioneer Head of Diaspora and Transnational studies programme at the Institute of African Studies, Univetsity of Ibadan. He has been Sub-Dean of the Institute, Editor of the flagship journal African Notes, and Head of the IAS Scientific Committee as well as the head of the City and Oil in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water’, published in Isle Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment which was recently ranked the top 10 publications on social and environmental justice by the Oxford University Press.

Early life and education

Samuel Senayon Olaoluwa born 26 October, 1971 in Obakobe, Ado-Odo, Ogun State. He attended St. Shepten Commercial High School, Ado-Odo where he obtained the West Africa Examination Council Ce (WAEC) in 1988.

Educational background

Olaoluwa is a graduate (BA Hons, 1997) in English from the then Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University), Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria. He obtained his MA in English from the University of Ibadan in 2003, and trained for his PhD in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa between 2006 and 2009.

Achievements

Dr. Olaoluwa has been Sub-Dean of the Institute, Editor of the flagship journal African Notes, and Head of the IAS Scientific Committee. He is a 2021 winner of the DAAD short stay fellowship for his project on Towards a History of the Longer African Novel Tradition. His diaspora theory on Late Arrival Superior Aggression (LASAT) has continued to gain traction and is a useful contributionto the body of theory from the Global South.

His publications number over 60 have appeared in high impact journals around the world including in African Affairs, African Studies Review, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Social Dynamics, among other such outlets. His latest output, ‘Dislocating Anthropocene:

In 2020, Olaoluwa 's article on Dislocation and the Anthropocene in the Niger Delta was ranked among the top 10 in the world on enviromental justice by Oxford University Press and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, (Spring 2020, Vol. 27, No. 2).

He has been receipient of numerous pretigios research and fellowships grants, iincluding the American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanity program from 2011-2012,the wits Africa Visiting Residency from 2011-2013, the all Africa House fellowship of the University of cape Town in 2014, the African quest Researchers'Programme at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden in 2016 and the German DAAD Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists in 2017 at the University of Mainz, Germany.

He has also held over 40 international travel fellowships and grants. Dr. Olaoluwa has in his postdoctoral career read his papers at international conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. He has believed keynote addresses at conferencees at the Uuniversity of Oldenburg, Germany(2014) On migrations of Knowlegde: potentials and limit of knowlegde production and critique in Europe and Africa" and the University of Cape Town during the 2nd "Narrative Enquiry for Socail Transformation Colloquium"(2017)

He is a consultant to national and international agencies on migration and diaspora matters. Among such are the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisations(UNESCO), Nigerians in Diaspora Commission(NiDCOM), Abuja, the African Union, and state diaspora agencies.