Tejumola Olaniyan
Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of African Languages and Literature and Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His major areas of teaching and research are African diaspora and postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and popular culture studies. He has published widely in these areas, including Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, Indiana UP (2004), Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama , Oxford Univerisity Press (1995); Co-Editor, Drama and Performance in Africa and the African Diaspora: Special Issue of Research in African Literatures 30.4 (Winter 1999); Editor, On 'Post-Colonial Discourse': A Special Issue Callaloo 16.4 (Fall 1993); and several book chapters and articles in journals such as Cultural Critique, Transition, Theatre Journal, African American Review, Social Dynamics, and Callaloo. His co-edited African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory is forthcoming from Blackwell (2007). He is currently at work on a book on political cartooning in Africa.