Shola Adenekan

I am the author of the book African Literature in the Digital Age and the principal investigator for YorubaPrint – a Starting Grant project funded by the European Research Council. I am currently an associate professor of African literature at the Faculty of Art & Philosophy, Ghent University. I am attached to the Department of Language and Culture, within the African Studies group.

I was previously an assistant professor of literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. I also recently held a diaspora fellowship at the English Department, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, which was funded by Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Codesria). I have a PhD in African studies from the University of Birmingham, UK (2012), and after my PhD, I worked at the University of Leeds (UK), University of Bayreuth (Germany) and University of Bremen (Germany).

Back in 2001, I trained as a journalist at the University of Westminster, London, UK, after which I had various stints as a journalist with BBC News Online, the Christian Science Monitor (USA), The Guardian (UK), The Independent (UK), and a few other news media outfits. I am also currently the publishing editor of an online magazine – The New Black magazine.