Sakiru Adebayo

Sakiru Adebayo is an assistant professor and the James and Eva Good Chair in English Literature at Western University. Before moving to Western, Adebayo worked as an assistant professor in the English department at the University of British Columbia Okanagan from 2021 to 2025. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa (University of Michigan Press). He is the winner of the Nigerian Prize for Literary Criticism (2022) as well as the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2023. He lives in London, ON.