I am an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

My teaching and research coalesce around African literatures, African screen media, cultural and critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. I am associate editor of African Writer Magazine, an online magazine of contemporary African and African diaspora literatures where I curate a series of interventions in African and African diaspora literatures and cultures. I also manage Africa Cartoons, an online repository of African political cartooning. Prior to coming to UBC, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Lagos; master’s degrees in English Language Linguistics, African Cultural Studies, and Literary Studies from the University of Lagos and the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a doctoral degree in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.