Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju

Dr. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju studied English and Applied Linguistics in the Universities of Ilorin, Ibadan and Reading, UK. Since 2007, he is Senior Lecturer of English and Applied Linguistics, Language and Society and Stylistics (language, literature, and culture) in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. Previously, Oloruntoba-Oju has been a George Forster fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a visiting scholar at the Universities of Bayreuth and the Technical University of Chemnitz. Currently, he is a Catalyst Fellow of the University of EDINBURGH. His previous books include Culture and the Contemporary African (Recito/Nordic Africa Institute, 2013); African Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide (Cuvillier, 2017); Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language and Literature (Cuvillier, 2019). His papers have been published by, among other outlets, Linguistics Vanguard, Language and Style, Sexuality Monographs, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Research in African Languages and Literatures, Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies; Africa World Press; African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre.