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Sakiru Adebayo is an academic specializing in African and African diasporic literature, teaching at the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. He obtained his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2020, an MA from the University of Ibadan in 2016, and a BA from the University of Ibadan in 2014. His research primarily focuses on memory studies and the representation of memory in postcolonial African literature, exemplified by his book 'Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa', which was a finalist for the MSA Book Award. Currently, Adebayo is engaged in a SSHRC-funded book project exploring the diasporisation of African literature. His work has appeared in renowned journals such as Parallax, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry, and Memory Studies. Additionally, he has received significant accolades, including the Nigerian Prize for Literary Criticism in 2022 and the Amilcar Cabral Prize in 2023. Adebayo actively supervises graduate students who are interested in African, Afropolitan, and new African diaspora literature. He is committed to advancing the understanding of textual representations within the framework of postcolonial studies.
Streams include Archaeology and Bioarchaeology, and Sociocultural Anthropology.