Sola Olorunyomi

Sola Olorunyomi, PhD, Research Reader in Cultural and Media Studies, Institute of African Studies, was formerly of the English department, both of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published extensively in local and international journal outlets on his research in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Nicaragua where he worked in the literacy and harvest volunteer team project in the mid-80s. Olorunyomi’s first book, Afrobeat! Fela and the Imagined Continent was published by Africa World Press (AWP, NJ) in 2002, and is being reissued by Noirledge Publishing. His complementary addition to the subject is a researcher’s extensive finder FelAfrobeat Index, and the co-authored Duro Ladipo: Thunder-god on Stage