Professor Olubunmi Oludolapo Ashaolu

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Professor Olubunmi Oludolapo Ashaolu

Professor

Area of Specialisation: Francophone African Literature and Film/ Post-colonial Studies.

MA: “La Femme dans les Romans Sénégalais: Le Cas de Xala de Sembene Ousmane et Une Si Longue Lettre de Mariama Bâ” (1992).

PhD: “Representations of sub-Saharan Africa in Contemporary French Literature and Film” (2005).

PUBLICATIONS 

Contributions to Books

i. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2014) “Power and Resistance: Reading the Colonized African

Transcripts in Khobio’s Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné.” in Irène Assiba d’Almeida et. al (eds), Eco-Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustanability. Trenton NJ: African World Press, 237-252.

 

ii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2017) “La France instable résonnée en Afrique et en Amérique au XVIe siècle: une étude de Les singularitez de la France antarctique et Les trois voyages de Jacques Cartier” In Raufu Adebisi, Victor Aire and Mufutau Tijani (eds), Mélanges d’Etudes Francophones I. Littérature, culture et civilization. Ibadan: Graduke Publishers, 220-233.

 

Published Articles in Journals.

iii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2012) “Une étude critique de voyage dans l’univers africain

du Spahi de Pierre Loti.” Ife Journal of Foreign Languages Ile-Ife, Department of Foreign Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, vol. 8, 183-196.

 

iv. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2015) “Non plus un sexe faible: une vue critique de femme et la violence dans un récit de guerre africain.” Imo-Irikisi, La Revue des Humanistes du Bénin, Calavi, Faculté des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines, Université de Benin, vol.7, (2). 41-48.

 

v. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2015) “Leadership, Culture and Structural Violence: Lessons from Tunde Kelani’s Saworo Ide and Sembène Ousmane’s Xala.” Ibadan Journal of Peace and Development, Ibadan, University of Ibadan, vols, 5&6. 114-134.

vi. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2016) “A Critical Study of History and Nationalist Discourse in Nollywood Narratives: Tunde Kelani’s Saworo Ide and Agogo Èèwò.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, Santa Clarita, CA, vol. 9, (10). 201-219. http://www.jpanafrican.org/vol9no10.htm.

 

vii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2016) “Virility at Large: The Embattled African Masculinity in Sembene Ousmane’s Xala.” Parnassus: Uyo Journal of Cultural Research, Uyo, Faculty of Arts, University of Uyo. vol 12, No 2, 283-302.

 

viii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2017) “Proverbs and the Preservation of Yorùbá Language and Cultural Values in Nollywood Movies.” African Renaissance. Adonis and Abbey Publishers Ltd, London, W8 5HD, Vol. 14 (Nos. 3&4), Sep/Dec 2017, 65-81.

 

ix. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2018) “A linha do horizonte: uma metáfora mal-resolvida dos africanos no filme Chocolat de Claire Denis.” Afro Asia, Salvador, No.58 (2018), 97-118.

 x. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2019) “The Ensnaring Oil: an Ecofeminist Critique of Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow.” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Vol. 9 No. 6 June 2019, 41-49.

 xi. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2019) “Une conscience éco-géocritique dans les œuvres de Moussa Sene Absa et Aminata Sow Fall.” Horizons Littéraires, No 3, Dec.2019, 28-42 Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis.

xii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2020) “La fille noire et le racisme du système éducatif français: Une étude stiwaniste des œuvres de Lacrosil et Hountondji.” Akofena Revue Scientifique des Sciences du Langage, Lettres, Langues et Communication, No 2, Sep. 2020, 403-416 Université Félix Houphouet-Boigny.

xiii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2021) “Motherism, African Women and Ecological Advocacy in Aminata Sow Fall’s L’Ex-père de la nation and Douceurs du bercail.” The Goose, A Journal of Arts, Environment and Culture in Canada vol. 19, no. 1, article 1, Sep. 1st 2021, https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol19/iss1/1.

 

xiv. Clotaire Saah NENGOU and Ashaolu Olubunmi O. (2022) “Regards croisés avant la lettre et après la lettre sur l’angoisse environnementale, dans le genotexte de quelques caribéens et africains” Ethiopiques, no 107 2ème Semester 2021. pp. 33-46.

  1. Ashaolu Olubunmi O. (2022) “Identity and the Constraints of Exile: A Critical Study of African/Woman in Ngangura’s Pièces d’identités”. Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines LX,II (3) No 247, Sep. pp. 599-616.

 

xvi. Ashaolu Olubunmi O. (2023) “The Significance of Land and Trees as Nationalist

Ecology in Sembène Ousmane’s Ô pays, mon beau peuple!”. LASUJOFL, Lagos State

       University Journal of Foreign Languages, Vol. 23-36.).

 

xvii. Ashaolu Olubunmi O. (2024) “Stigmatizing to evangelize? A critical appraisal of demonized women in african pentecostal christian films”. Revue Infundibulum-Scientific. Revue Scientifique des Langues, Lettres, Civilisation, Sciences Sociales et Humaines, Vol. 7, 2024.pp. 135-151.

 Interview.

i. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2017) “For Ramonu Sanusi: A Writer is Influenced by the Environment”. In Papers in English and Linguistics (PEL), Obafemi Awolowo University Vol.18 Nos 3&4, Dec. 2017, pp. 69-85.

 Book Reviews.

i. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2006) Review of Madame de Maintenon: Dialogues and Addresses. Ed. and trans. John J. Conley, SJ. Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. xxxvii (1): 284-285.

ii. Ashaolu, Olubunmi O. (2006) Review of “Memoirs of the Life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière. Ed. Trans. Donna Kuizenga. Sixteenth Century Journal. Vol. xxxvii (3): 902.