Prof. Dr. Felix Ayoh Omidire

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSocial and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,African Studies
KeywordsLatin America, Cultural identity, Diaspora, Yorubaness, Globalization
Honours and awards

2016: AVH Return Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

2015: DAAD/HRK/CHE Fellowship for the International Deans` Course Africa

2011: Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers

2009: DAAD Research Award for Post-Doctoral Fellows

2003: CAPES Research Fellowship, Brazil

1997: Camões Research Fellowship, Portugal

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityIle-Ife
InstitutionObafemi Awolowo University
InstituteDepartment of Foreign Languages
Homepagewww.ics.oauife.edu.ng

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-WildInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Susanne GehrmannSeminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Susanne GehrmannInstitut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2011

Programme(s)

2011Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2015 Rodolfo Alpízar Castillo. : Peregun y otras fabulaciones de mi tierra. . Editorial Arte y Literatura, 2015
2012Felix Ayoh Omidire: Mestiçagem e o discurso identitário em Angola e no Brasil: uma análise do romance Mayombe de Pepetela e da música 'Sou realista'do rapista Afroman Yannick. In: Maria Nazareth Soares Fonseca & Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury, África: Dinâmicas culturais e literários. Editora PUC MINAS, 2012. 273-298
2012Felix Ayoh Omidire & Tunde Babawale: Multiculturalismo, desenvolvimento e a luta pela plena cidadania das populações afrodescendentes na América Latina e no Caribe. Concept Publications Limited, 2012
2012Felix Ayoh Omidire & Alcione M. Amos: O babalaô fala: a autobiografia de Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim. In: Afro-Ásia: Journal of the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais – CEAO/UFBA, Salvador - BA, Brazil , 2012, 229-261
2011Felix Ayoh Omidire: La identidad frente al poder: La asimetría ritual de Yemayá en África y América Latina. In: Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, Historias enredadas: Representaciones asimétricas con vista al Atlântico. edición tranvía - Verlag Walter Frey, 2011. 145-165
2011Felix Ayoh Omidire: Ventriloquism or the Dilemma of a Culture Translator: Re-Translating Mestre Didi's Nagô-Afro-Brazilian Tales into Yoruba. In: Akin Alao, Politics, Culture and Development in Nigeria. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2011. 185-201