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Dr. Ayobami Olajumoke Onanuga

Lecturer II

Faculty of Arts · Department of English and Literary Studies

Specialization Women Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Digital Humanities; African Prose Narratives; Genocide Narratives; Minority Studies.

Phone: 07069412526

Email: ayobami.onanuga@fuoye.edu.ng

Biography

Ayobami Onanuga has a Ph.D. from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria, where she studied the victimhood of homosexual characters, and the agency of women in sexually oppressing male homosexuals in African fictional narratives. She was a Digital Humanism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna. She lectures at the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti where her teaching intersects her research interests on African fiction, genocide narratives, and queer and gender studies. She co-guest edited a Special Issue on Nigeria Queer migration with African Identities and is presently rounding up guest-editing a Special Issue on Contemporary Dating and Matchmaking in Nigeria Digital Media with Journal of Gender Studies. Her articles have been published in Journal of Literary Studies, Society, Contemporary Music Review, Journal of the African Literature Association, African Identities, Green Letters, and others.

Research Interests

I am interested in African fictional and non-fictional narratives especially those related to human rights, genocides and gender/sexuality. My research also delves into Digital media productions on pop culture, gender and sexuality. In my research writings, I apply postcolonial theory, agency theory, gender and queer theories to the discussion of texts and relate these to contemporary realities.

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Selected Publications

  1. Visa for love: exploring social mobility and matchmaking in Nigeria digital media
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga and Oluwole Coker
    Journal of Gender Studies (2026)
  2. Interrogating Patriarchy and Homophobia in Nigeria's Zikoko Online Magazine
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    In Book: Gender and Sexuality in Transdisciplinary African Humanities, ed Wumi Raji (2026)
  3. Introduction: emergent issues in Nigerian queer migration discourse
    Authors: Paul Onanuga, Ayobami Onanuga, David Amodu
    African Identities (2025)
  4. Pushing the Boundaries from Theories to Praxis: A Linguistic Exploration of Female Artistes’ ‘Responses’ to Patriarchy and Stereotypes in Nigerian Hip-Hop
    Authors: Paul Onanuga and Ayobami Onanuga
    Journal of Contemporary African Studies, (2024)
  5. Revisiting Religion and Homophobia: Narratives of Agency and Resilience in Nigerian Queer Fiction.
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Gender Questions (2024)
  6. Gender Politics and Projecting for Fame in Big Brother Nigeria Reality Show
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Society (2024)
  7. Women Oppressors and Male Queer Victims: An Analysis of Selected Fictional Narratives on Homosexuality.
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Papers in English and Linguistics (PEL) (2023)
  8. The Environment and Agency: An Ecocritical Reading of Richard Maduku’s Kokoro Compound
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    GreenLetters (2023)
  9. Narrating Women and Ethnoreligious Conflicts in Sule’s Sterile Sky.
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    JESAN (2023)
  10. Transnational Mobilities in Search of Refuge: „Home‟, Migration and the Queer in Nigerian Literature
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga and Paul Onanuga
    African Diaspora (2023)
  11. Demobilising Phallic Order: Narrating Female Heterosexual Agencies.
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    AnaLize: Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies (2022)
  12. The Dynamics of Sexual Repression, Deceit, and Coming Out in African Homosexual Narratives.
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) (2022)
  13. Individualism and the Contemporary Erosion of African Communality: Exploring Drama for Societal Change in Osofisan’s Major Plays 2
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga and Paul Onanuga
    Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies (2021)
  14. The Youth and Hip-Hop: Exploring ‘Violence’ and ‘Sexuality’ in the Linguistic Behaviour of Nigerian University Students
    Authors: Paul Onanuga and Ayobami Onanuga
    Contemporary Music Review (2020)
  15. Religious and Errant Leadership Motifs as Appurtenances of Genocide: A Reading of Murambi and Say You Are One of Them
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Ekpoma Journal of Language and Literature (2019)
  16. Violence and its Linguistic Framing: An Ex-ploration of Boubacar Boris Diop’s Murambi, The Book of Bones and Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them
    Authors: Ayobami Onanuga
    Journal of Literary Studies (2018)

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