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Adeleke Adeeko, Humanities Distinguished Professor



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570 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210

Phone: 614-247-8792

Office Hours:
AUTUMN 2009 TUE/THU 2:00-3:15 P.M. EMAIL: adeeko.1@osu.edu PHONE: 614-247-8792

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http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/adeeko1/

B.A., M.A. (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) Ph.D. (University of Florida). My teaching and research interests are, in no particular order of importance, Yoruba Literature, literary theory, African American Literature, and Anglophone literatures of Africa, south Asia, and the Caribbean. I am the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (1998) and The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (2005). My ongoing research projects are "Animist" Poetics in African American Poetry and Praise Culture in Lagos, Nigeria.
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