ATILADE Kayode Ayobami

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ATILADE Kayode Ayobami

Professor

Email address(es): ayodestiny@yahoo.com

Office Address: Department of Foreign Languages Faculty of Arts

ORCID iD: 0000000333821721

Academic Qualifications: BA, MA, PhD

Areas of Specialization: Francophone African Literature, Maghrebian Literature, Stylistics, and Literary Discourse Analysis

Title of M.A. Thesis: L’esthétique Littéraire dans Partir et La nuit sacrée de Tahar Ben Jelloun

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Discourse Features of the Concept of Home in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Novels

Scholarships : The Staff Training and Development Grants of the Education Trust Fund (ETF) for Ph. D Programme

Fellowships:

The African Humanities Programme (AHP) Grant Award of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the completion of PhD Dissertation

Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Programme awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies

Research Grants:

Research Residency Grant at the West African Research Centre (WARC), Dakar, Senegal

Postdoctoral Research Residency Grant at the School of Languages and Literatures (SOLL), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Ongoing Current Research:

I am currently undertaking a research work on the phenomenon of the child soldier in postcolonial African contexts as presented in both Francophone and Anglophone novels. The working title for the research is “Child Soldier and Postcolonial Dilemma in Sub-Saharan Francophone African War Literature”.

Publications*

  1. Kayode Atilade, Richard Ajah, Amos Iyiola and Abosede Adeboyeku (2016): Language and Literature in the Dis/service of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Professor Tunde Ayeleru.1-383. Ibadan: Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. ISBN: 978-978-21537-6-2.
  2. Chijioke Uwasomba, Wole Coker and Kayode Atilade (2017): Emerging Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century Nigerian Novel.1-415. Gottengen: Galda Verlag, Germany. ISBN 978-3-941267-80-0 (Print); ISBN 978-3-941267-81-7 (EBook).

iii. Kayode Atilade (2010): “Linguistic Autonomy in Literature: An Appraisal of Beyala’s use of language in C’est le soleil qui m’a brulée” in J.S. Makoka et al (Eds.). Tales, Tellers and Tale-making: Critical Studies on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles in Contemporary African Literature. 47-52. Saarbrücken: VDM, Germany.

  1. Kayode Atilade (2010): “Le langage comme stratégie déconstructive chez Tahar Ben Jelloun et l’esthétique de sa réception” in Emmanuel Kwofie and Tunde Ayeleru (Eds.). Language, Literature and Criticism: Essays in Honour of Professor Aduke Adebayo. 351-365. Ibadan: Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
  2. Kayode Atilade (2013): “Felicitous or Ferocious Space?: Ambiguities of Home in Jellounian Discursive Narratives” in Chijioke Uwasomba, Adebayo Mosobalaje and Wole Coker (Eds.). Existentialism, Literature and the Humanities in Africa: Essays in Honour of B.M. Ibitokun. 248-261. Gottingen: Cuvillier Verlag, Germany.
  3. Kayode Atilade and Richard Ajah (2016): “Between Scholarship and Politics: An Interview with Babatunde Ayeleru” in Kayode Atilade, Richard Ajah, Amos Iyiola and Abosede Adeboyeku (Eds.). Language and Literature in the Dis/service of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Professor Tunde Ayeleru. 367-378. Ibadan: Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

vii. Kayode Atilade (2017): “Satire in Selected Nigerian Francophone Writings” in Chijioke Uwasomba, Wole Coker and Kayode Atilade (Eds.). Emerging Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century Nigerian Novel. 41-54. Gottengen: Galda Verlag, Germany.

viii. Kayode Atilade (2021): “Globalization and the Concept of Home in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Migrant Novels” in O. Coker and A. Adeniran (Eds.) Texts and Contexts of Migration in Africa and Beyond. 43-56. Austin, Texas: Pan African University Press.

  1. Kayode Atiade (2022): “Towards Achieving Grant-Winning Academic Proposals in the Humanities” in M. Tijani (ed.) Concise Handbook on Research Conduct and Writing.
  2. Kayode Atilade (2006): “Fictive Facts or Factual Fiction? : A Study of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Partir”. Ibadan Journal of European Studies. No. 6: 53-68. Ibadan: Department of European Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
  3. Kayode Atilade (2012): “Metaphoric Reading of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baissés and Partir”. Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts. Vol. 7: 17-30. Ife: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria.

xii. Kayode Atilade (2012): “Towards Deconstructing Patriarchy: Women’s Discourse in Selected Francophone African Narratives”. Journal of Applied Education and Vocational Research (JAEVR). Vol. 9 (2): 35-47. Ijegun: Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Nigeria.

xiii. Kayode Atilade and Rasaq Gbadamosi (2012): « La Femme face au patriarcat au Maghreb: une politique de subversion dans l’œuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun ». Ife Journal of Foreign Languages (IJOFOL). Vol. 8: 145-153. Ile-Ife: Department of Foreign Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. xiv. Kayode Atilade (2013): “Language as Conveyor of Ideology in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baissés and Partir”. Ife Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (IJOHUSS). Vol. 1: 138-150. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

  1. Kayode Atilade (2013): “Un pays si riche, un peuple si pauvre: une lecture postcoloniale des romans de Tahar Ben Jelloun”. Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Vol. 43/B: 203-214. Dakar : Université Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.

xvi. Kayode Atilade (2014): “Maghrebian Literature and the Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion”. Journal of Pan African Studies (JPAS). Vol. 7 (3): 121-134. www.jpanafrican.co/vol7no3.htm California Institute of Pan African Studies, Los Angeles, California, USA.

xvii. Kayode Atilade (2014): “Aspects of Yoruba Discourse Features in Tunde Fatunde’s La Calebasse Cassée” in African Symposium: An online journal of the African Educational Research Network. Vol. 14 (1&2): 3-10. www.africanresearch.org/africansymposium/archives/…1…/TAS14.1.2Atilade.pdf Virginia Union University, USA.

xviii. Kayode Atilade (2014): “Quand les frères se battent … : La violence ethnique dans Johnny chien méchant d’Emmanuel Dongala”. Beyond Babel. Issue 2: 114-136. Ilisan: Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State. Nigeria.

xix. Kayode Atilade (2016): “Thématique de la migration dans la littérature africaine: réflexion sur les romans de Tahar Ben Jelloun et d’Aminata Sow Fall”. Revues des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication (ReSciLac). Vol. 2 : 146-176. Cotonou : Université Abomey Calavi, République du Bénin.

  1. Kayode Atilade (2016): “Linguistic Cohesion in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Les yeux baissés”. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education. Vol. 10: 2: 1-13. Dar es Salaam: Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

xxi. Kayode Atilade and Ireti Oluwasola (2019): “L’autoreprésentation, la métafiction et la satire socio-politique de l’Afrique postcoloniale dans deux romans d’Alain Mabanckou”. Revues des Sciences du Langage et de la Communication (ReSciLac). Vol. 9 : 103-116. Cotonou : Université Abomey Calavi, République du Bénin.

xxii. Kayode Atilade (2020): “La désillusion postcoloniale dans la fiction nigériane contemporaine: l’exemple de Le bistouri des larmes de Ramonu Sanusi”. Revue de l’Association nigériane des Enseignants de français (RANEUF). No. 18: 295-314. Badagry: University French Teachers’ Association of Nigeria.

xxiii. Kayode Atilade (2022): « La tradition orale comme outil de plaidoyer: L’écocritique dans Ijala d’Ogundare Foyanmu » Mouvances Francophones. Vol. 7, Issue-numéro 1: 12-22. University of Western Ontario, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5206/mf.v7i1.14589.

xxiv. Kayode Atilade (2022): “Towards Achieving Grant-Winning Academic Proposals in the Humanities xxv. Kayode Atilade and Babatunde Ayeleru (2022): “La poésie Ijala d’Ogundare Foyanmu: exploration d’un instrument de réforme sociale”.

xxvi. Richard Ajah and Kayode Atilade (2022): “Negotiating Spaces of Fear in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Migrant Writing”

xxvii. Clotaire Saah and Kayode Atilade (2022): « Chiasme vicieux, partir pour fuir et fuir sans partir : une sémiosphère du roman de Tahar Ben Jelloun » xxviii. Kayode Atilade and Tajudeen Osunniran (2022): “An Appraisal of Academic Performance of Post-Linguistic-Immersion-Programme Students of French in OAU’s Department of Foreign Languages”.