Omotayo Jemiluyi — Prolific Scholar: African Communication, Cultural, & Diaspora Studies

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I’m a graduate fellow at the Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute (IMSI) at the University of Missouri, Columbia. A prolific scholar, my interdisciplinary research moves across interconnected areas of African epistemologies, post/decolonial thought, migration, gender, and African popular culture. My notably multifaceted body of work is moored in African centered inquiry and is spun from two major orientations. One strand focuses on African literature, film, and music as intellectual and cultural repositories that acquaints and negotiate questions of identities, power, and social transformation. The other spectrum of my intellectual breadth draws on qualitative engagement with lived narratives to examine gender, migration, and diasporic Black Africanness, with laser attention to how Black African subjects re-negotiate belonging, cultural continuity, and selfhood across shifting social worlds. My work has appeared in several notable journals, including Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Gender Studies, The Journal of Men’s Studies, Howard Journal of Communications, Journal of International Migration and Integration, French Cultural Studies, African Studies Quarterly, and Journal for Cultural Research, among others.