Patrick Oloko

 Patrick Oloko is Visiting Professor with the Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. He teaches Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of Lagos, specialising in African Postcolonial Literature, Popular and Visual Cultures. His current research is on the Lagos creative and cultural economy, and he works with artists, writers and entertainment entrepreneurs to understand and map their involvements in the current reconfiguring of arts, performances and infrastructures to serve the diverse tastes of audiences in this city of twenty-two million people. He is the editor of The Fiction of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo: Issues and Perspectives (2008); In Theory and In Practice: Engaging the Writing of Hope Eghagha (2015) and Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined: Rethinking Adire in Yoruba Fashion and textile Modernity (2021).