Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa Explained

Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa, also known as Bola Sotunsa is a Nigerian academic. She is a Professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literatures in the Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Babcock University.https://www.babcock.edu.ng/faculty/Sotunsam

Life

Sotunsa completed her MA at the University of Ibadan in 1998, later developing her thesis into the book Feminism and gender discourse: the African experience. She got her PhD from the English department at the University of Ibadan,^[1] where she was a student of Ademola Dasylva.

Sotunsa joined the Language and Literary Studies Department at Babcock University, becoming a senior lecturer and head of department.^[1] In 2018 she delivered her inaugural lecture as Professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literatures at Babcock University, on 'Gender matters and cultural dilemmas in African literature'.^[2]

Works

• Feminism and gender discourse: the African experience. Sagamu, Nigeria: Asaba Publications, 2009.
• Yorùbá drum poetry. London: Stillwatersstudios, 2009.
• 'Feminism: The Quest for an African Variant', in Journal of Pan-African Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2009), pp.227-234
• (ed. with F. B. O. Akporobaro and Solomon Odiase Iguanre) Landmark and new essays in literary and linguistic theories and analysis. Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Princeton Publishing Co., 2010.
• (ed. with Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso) Women in Africa : Contexts, Rights, Hegemonies. Lagos: Jedidiah Publishers, 2012.
• (ed. with Akinloyè Ojó) Fieldwork in Nigerian oral literature. Ilishan Remo, Ogun State: Write Right Academic Publishing, 2014.
• (ed. with Karim Traoré and Akinloyè Ojó) Expressions of indigenous and local knowledge in Africa and its diaspora. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
• (ed. with Michael A. Omolewa & Philemon O. Amanze) Emerging discourses on the future of higher education in Africa. Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria: Babcock University Press, 2016.
• (ed. with Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso) Gender, Culture and Development in Africa. Pan-African University Press, 2017.
• (ed, with Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua) 'Dialectics and structural organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì festival performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ people in Lagos State, Nigeria'. Yoruba Studies Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp.199-213
• (ed. with Abikal Borah) Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.

Notes and References

1. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012006601.html Sotunsa, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V5HdPYAvCc Prof. Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa - Professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literature