Ibrahim Odugbemi
PhD Student
Contact Information
Research and Creative Interests
- Comparative Cinema and Media Studies
- Global Media
- Nollywood
- African Cinema
- Black Cinema
- Media Archeology
- Media and Ecology
- Global Black Consciousness
- Postcolonial Discourse
- Postmodernism
- biopolitics
- Documentary practice
- Nonfiction
- African Orality
- Globalization
- Hybridity
Biography
Ibrahim Odugbemi is a Ph.D. student. He received an MA in African Studies from Indiana University-Bloomington, and an MA and a BA in English (Literature) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests cut across media, cultural, literary, and area studies.
Publications
- Adedoyin Aguoru and Ibrahim Odugbemi, National Character and the Narrative of
Self-Image in Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom and Obasanjo’s My Watch. Journal of Global South Studies 39, no 2. 371-401. (2022) - Ibrahim Odugbemi, [Book review] Jordan Ifueko’s Raybearer. (2021)
- Ibrahim Odugbemi, [Book review] Michael Vickers. Looking Back from the Future: The View from Onitsha – Message to My Children. Austin: Pan-African University Press, 2018. 71pp. African and Asian Studies 18 (2019)
- Ibrahim Odugbemi, [Book review] Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. Yoruba Studies Review 3, no 1. (2018)
- Ibrahim Odugbemi, “The City as Muse”: A Context-Oriented Meta-historical Reading of Toyin Falola’s A Mouth Sweeter than Salt. Yoruba Studies Review 1, no 2. 125-137. (2017)