Dr. Olalekan Balogun

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheatre and Media Studies,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
Keywordspostcolonial failures, adaptation/appropriation, dysphoria, violence, Nigeria
Honours and awards

2021: Bayreuth Academy Advanced African Studies Research Fellowship (BA) University of Bayreuth, Germany

2019: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (CTDPS),University of Cape Town, South Africa

2018: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

2016: Submission Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2014: Research Grant, Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2013: Doctoral Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

2009: Travel Grant, “International Playwrights Workshop" Royal Court Theatre, London; British Council, Nigeria & Genesis Foundation, UK

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityLagos
InstitutionUniversity of Lagos
InstituteDepartment of Creative Arts

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter W. MarxInstitut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2022

Programme(s)

2022Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2021Lekan Balogun: “Aesthetics of Adaptation and Tradition in Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined”. In: Oloko Patrick Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined: Rethinking Adire in Yoruba Fashion and Textile Modernity. Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, Lagos, 2021. 170—93
2021Lekan Balogun: “‘It’s a short distance from Sontag’: Chinyere Okafor’s New Toyi-Toyi as Militant Feminism”. In: Afolayan, Bosede Funke, Nigerian Female Dramatists: Expressions, Resistance, Agency . Routledge, 2021. 76—89
2021Lekan Balogun: “‘Wedlock of Rage’: Youth Restiveness in Zulu Sofola and Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Drama”. In: Afolayan, Bosede Funke, Nigerian Female Dramatists: Expressions, Resistance, Agency . Routledge, 2021. 105—19
2019Lekan Balogun & Sesan Fasaanu: “Complexity and Politics of Naming in Yoruba Tradition: A Dramatic Exploration of Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant”. In: Genealogy, 3, 2019, 1—14
2018Lekan Balogun: “Mythological Recuperation and Performance as Agency for Genealogical Recuperation in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo”. In: Genealogy, 2, 2018, 1—16
2018Lekan Balogun: “Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy: The Art of Adaptation and the Spirituality of Being & Things in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and The Narrow Path”. In: JAFDIS: Journal of African and Diaspora Studies, 1, 2018, 53—74
2017Lekan Balogun: “From Performing the ‘Sundiata Form’ to Staging the Òrìsà: Djanet Sears’s search for Orírun in Harlem Duet”. In: Shakespeare en devenir/Shakespeare in Africa Project, Université de Poitiers. , 2017,
2017Lekan Balogun: “Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa: Shakespeare, Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka, and Welcome Msomi’s uMabatha: the Zulu Macbeth”. In: Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 10, 2017, 36— 54
2017Lekan Balogun: “‘Òtún we òsì, òsì we òtún’: gender, feminist mirroring, and the Yoruba concept of power and balance”. In: Journal of Gender and Power,, 7, 2017, 27—47
2015Lekan Balogun: 'Ele Supremacy’: Obinrin-Aesthetic in Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant”. In: Adamu Pangmeshi and Blossom N. Fondo, Rewriting Her Story: Critical Essays on the Female Subject in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. Ken Scholars Publishing, 2015. 121—52
2015Lekan Balogun: Moremi. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2015
2013Lekan Balogun: “Ajubaba: Shakespeare and Yoruba Goddess”. In: ” International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies,, 1, 2013, 8—25
2010Lekan Balogun: Olofin Ajaye: The Story of Lagos.. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2010
2010Lekan Balogun: For Heroes and Scoundrels. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2010
2010Lekan Balogun: Shaka. Lantern Books, 2010
2009Lekan Balogun: Farewell. British Council Nigeria, 2009
2008Lekan Balogun: Oya: Goddess of Whirlwind.. Lantern Books, 2008
2005Lekan Balogun: Alaafin Kanran: Fall of Tyranny. Lantern Books, 2005
2005Lekan Balogun: The Rejected Stone. Lantern Books, 2005
2003Lekan Balogun: Our Tomorrow Today. Afrocentric Books, 2003