Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in African Politics

is lecturer in the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. His areas of teaching and research include Dramatic Literature, Poetry, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture. He is the author of Naked Soles, co-editor (with Bjorn Beckman) of Intellectuals and African Development and editor of Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima’s Drama. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, from October to December 2008. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program organized by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).