Azeez Akinwumi Sesan

Dr Azeez Akinwumi Sesan holds B.Ed, M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria with research interest in Oral Literature, Drama, Performance, Gender, Cultural and Film Studies. The title of his PhD Thesis is Historiography and Cultural Meaning in Dramatic Literature and Video Films of English and Yoruba Expression

He has had fifteen years of cognate experience in teaching, research and administration in institutions of higher learning such as the college of education and university, namely – Mufutau Lanihun College of Education, Al-Hikmah University, Osun State University and Skyline University, Nigeria before joining the American University of Nigeria (AUN). In the course of his experience, he has taught courses in African Literature, Literature and the New Media, Victorian Literature, Romantic Literature, Modern African Drama, Literature and Gender, Literary Criticism, Creative Writing, Modern Drama, Black Diasporic Literature, Sociology of Literature, Non-Fiction Writing and African Novel at undergraduate and postgraduate levels of studies. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the Federal University of Kashere, Gombe State where he taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

He is a member of professional associations such as Literary Society of Nigeria (LSN), Literary Scholars Association (LSA), Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA) and International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), Japan.

He has engaged in some national assignments such as a discussant at the Roundtable Discourse on Press Freedom and National Security organized by Nigeria Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) and his contributions at the roundtable were part of the communique of the roundtable. He was also a member of the consultative panel for the review of Nigeria’s Copyright Law in 2013. Besides, he was an external examiner for National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS).

He has published a reasonable number of academic papers in high profile journals such as Matatu, Marang, Anafora, Okike, European Journal of Humour Research, Ibadan Journal of English Studies, Ife Studies in English Language (ISEL) and Papers in English and Linguistics (PELS). He is also a reviewer to some academic journals such as the European Journal of Humour Research, Currents in African Literature and the English Language (CALEL) and Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA).

Apart from academic research, Dr Sesan is a creative writer with two published and many unpublished plays. He also has three volumes of unpublished poetry to his credit while one of the volumes, Echoes of Silence, is in the press. He is also a consultant film scriptwriter/screenplay and he has featured in some Nollywood movies and soap operas in English and Yoruba expression.