Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà

Short Biography

Dr Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà is a Senior Research Fellow (Visual Art/Art History) in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ìbàdàn. She earned her B.A. (Ed) Fine Arts from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife; her Masters in Visual Art (African Studies), and Ph.D. Visual Art/Art History from the University of Ìbàdàn. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden. Her areas of specialization are African Art History, Visual Art, Folklore and Gender Studies, Migration history, and Peace and Conflict Studies.

Adésànyà was an awardee of the M. K. O. Abiola Postgraduate Fellowship of the University of Ìbàdàn in 1997, is a Fellow of Codesria Gender Institute 1998, Fellow of the 2004 Peace and Conflict Studies Programme of Uppsala University, Sweden, and was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advance Studies Indiana University, Bloomington in 2007. She has published many essays in her areas of specialization. She is co-author with Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi of the book titled: Restless Minds: Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African in the Diasporas (Carolina Academic Press, 2008). Her collection of poems, Etches of Fresh Waters, a co-authored volume with Toyin Falola, is under contract of Carolina Academic Press. Her forthcoming book on art history titled Carving Woods, Making History, a major text on the vestiges of Yoruba woodcarving straddling the nineteenth century to the present, is under contract of Africa World Press.

The creative endeavors of the art historian cum artist include poetry, painting, cartooning, and illustration. She is an active academic who has toured many universities in the United States including the University of Texas at Austin; University of Texas at Arlington; Brooklyn College, New York; Florida State University, Miami, FL; and the State University of San Marcos, TX, among others, giving lectures and seminars.