27/04/2026
Just incase you’re second guessing yourself. “Why did I stay in the language world?” Stick around because we are starting a new spotlight series of our alumni from the Department of Foreign Languages.
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Okikiola Olusanu is a current Ph.D. Student at the University of Georgia, US. She is passionate about women, individual and collective identity reconstruction through writing. Her research traces the evolution of African feminist discourse in the works of Calixthe Beyala, Jeanne Diama, Ken Bugul, Gnali Aimée, Djaïli Amal comparatively with Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre. She looks forward to completing her dissertation.
Her Recently Published Article.
Olusanu, Okikiola. Hunting Shadows: Revisiting Displacement Trauma Through Archives in Gyasi’s Homegoing “. Roots, Routes, and Rebirth: Global African Identities in Motion. Edited by Maxime Vignon and Benaouda Lebdai, The Channel Press, 2026, pp. 45-52.
This is aimed at charging every language enthusiast, learner, aspirant, student to remain rooted in learning that language. It will hatch soon.