Prof C B Ogunyemi

Qualifications

PhD, University of Sunderland. United Kingdom. 2016
Existing Published/Creative Works. Dissertation: ‘A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Social Themes in Post-colonial Nigeria’.
Faculty of Education and Society

M.A, Dalarna University, Sweden. (Comparative Literature). 2007
Dissertation ‘Various Voices in African Poetry: Analysis of Poems of Black Africa”.

B.A, University, Nigeria. B.A (Hons) (English). 2000
Thesis: ‘A Literary Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah’

Fields of academic interests

• Gender Trajectory in Postcolonial Literature

Field of Specialisation

• Gender in Postcolonial Literature,
• Global South and Genocide Studies

Books

BOOKS

1. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2010): Male Autobiographical Narrativesand Gender Imperatives in Nigeria. Saarbrucken Germany, VDM-publishing Co,(ISBN: 978-3-639-25820-2.)

2.     Ogunyemi,  Christopher  Babatunde  (2010):Topical  Issues  in  Literature  and Globalization:  A  Comparative  Analysis  of  Irish,  Nigerian,  Indian  and  Swedish Literature. Saarbrucken, Germany. Lap-Lambert publishing, (ISBN: 978-3-639-26150-9.)

3.     Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2010):Narratology and Contemporary Fiction: Trends in Analysis. Saarbrucken, Germany, VDM-publishing, 2010 (ISBN: 978-3-639-26150-9).

4.  Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde, Yanqing Zhang and Okoko Chinedu Anthony.(2010): Literature and National Development in China. Nigeria and America: A re-evaluation. Saarbrucken, Germany. VDM-publishing. (ISBN: 978-3-639-30454-1).

5.  Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2010):  Exile, Migration and Social Engineering Devices in African Poetry. (A Monograph). Ibadan.

 6.       Kolawola, A.J and Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2011): Utilization of Information as Literary Correlates in Library Science: Nigeria as a Critical Example. Lap-Lambert Publishing, Germany (ISBN: 978-3-8443-1640-7).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

7.      Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2013): ‘Conflagrated Violence in Literature of Diaspora, Wright and Baldwin in Reading and Meta-Analysis’ Selected Studies in the Humanities. papers in Honour of Professor Dele Orisawayi, ed. S.O Ayodele. Ibadan: Powerhouse Press and Publishers. pp 39-50. ISBN: 978-978-8123-47-6

8.    Kolawole A.J, Oguntoye O.F and Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2012): Literacy and Electronic Library in Nigeria: A Re-Examination of Obafemi Awolowo University’s Agricultural Library’. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Literacy and Language Studies-Essays on Chukwuemeka Eze Onukaogu(eds) Obiajulu Emejulu andIfeoma Isiugo- Abanihe. Kampala (Uganda) and Owerri (Nigeria): International Development in Africa Committee (IDAC) and Afrika-Links Books (ISBN: 978 291567. 91-110

9.    Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde and Victor Friday Igbogbo (2012): ‘Historical Perspectives to Harlem and Negritude Movements in African Nationalism’ Contemporary Issues in Curriculum and Evaluative Research. Faleye .V. Folajogun (Eds). Ibadan: Ibadan University. ISBN: 978-978-8456-00-1 Press. Pp 472-484

Journal articles

Peer-reviewed Articles
1. Ogunyemi Christopher Babatunde (2022): Sexuality and Hierarchal Trajectories in Global South: A Decolonial Reading of Developments of Gender Dichotomies in Contemporary Literature. Heliyon ISSN: 2405-8440 (Accreditations: DHET, Elsevier Scopus, Ebsco, MLA etc) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10159
2. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2021): Representing Gender and Structural Inequalities in Selected Postcolonial Zimbabwean Literature. African Identities ISSN: 1472-5851. https://doi.org/10:1080/14725843.2021.1952062 (Accreditations: DHET, Scopus, ISI, Ebsco etc)
3. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2021): Fela Kuti’s Black Consciousness: African Cosmology and the Reconfiguration of Blackness in ‘Colonial Mentality’ African Identities, Vol 19: 4. ISSN: 1472-5851 pp 487-501 https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1803793 (Accreditations: DHET, Scopus, Ebsco etc)
4. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2020): Contextualizing the Versification of Genocide and Gender Violence in Zimbabwean Poetry. African Identities, ISSN: 1472-5851 https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1778442 (Accreditations: DHET, Scopus, Ebsco etc)
5. Echendu, FN and Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi (2020): Visualizing Myths and Legends for Grotesque Gender Configuration in Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Trilogy. African Identities. ISSN: 1472-5851 https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2020.1816451 (Accreditations: DHET, Scopus, Ebsco etc)
6. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2020): Migrating Through Cultures, Deconstructing Masculinities and Gender Identities in Modern Islamic Literature. Gender Questions (8:1). 15pages. ISSN: 2309-9704 https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/6493 (Accreditations: DHET, EBSCO etc)
7. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2019): Phallocentrism versus Feminism: A (re)-Conceptualization of Afrocentrism in African Subjectivity. Africa Insights. 49: (1). 112-121.
ISSN: 0256-2804 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-17a0ae6cdb (Accreditations: DHET, Ebsco, MLA etc)
8. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2018). Gender (re)- Configuration in Nigerian Literature through Time and Space. (Journal of Literary Studies)/ Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap. 34: 4, 122-134. (print): ISSN: 0256 4718. Online: ISSN:1753-5387. https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2018.1538084
9. Niyi Akingbe and Ogunyemi, Christopher B (2017). Countering Masculinity: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and the Rise of Feminist Assertiveness in the Novels of Female Writers. Studia Universitatis ‘Patru Maior’ Chec Rep Philologia. Vol 22 (1). Pp. 80-94. ISSN:1582-9960
10. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2017): The Dialectic of Gender Embellishment and Socio-Political Absurdity in Post-Colonial Nigerian Literature: a polemic interpretation Glocalism-globus et locus: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation. University of Milan. Italy. June, Issue 2. Pp: 4- 22. ISSN: 2283-7949. DOI: 10.12893/gjcpi.2017.2.12
11. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. (2017): Trans-versing Across Linguistics and Literary Theories, feminist Hermeneutics as Paradigm Shift in the Modernization of African Literature. Akungba Journal of Linguistics and Literatures. No 8. Issue 2 July. Pp 143-168. ISSN: 2141-5420
12. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2017). Feminist and Structural Narratologie as Identity (re)-Configurations in African Narratives. A Meta-Critical Expositions of Literary Articles. English Review: Journal of English Education, Indonesia VOL 6(1) December, pp 21-32. ISSN: (print): 2301-7554, (online): ISSN:2541-3643 https://doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v6i1.767 DOAJ
13. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2017): Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and the Social Transformation of Feminist Garbs in Female Writers of Contemporary Literature. GNOSIS: An International Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol 4 No 1 pp. 36-47 October. ISSN: 2394-0131
14. Ogunyemi, Christopher. B. (2016). Ambiguity in autobiographical narratives in Nigeria:Valorizing sexism and displacement in Ogoni Cosmology. English Review: Journal of English Education, Indonesia VOL 5(1), pp 11-24. ISSN: (print): 2301-7554, (online): ISSN: 2541-3643 https://doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v5i1.385 DOAJ
15. Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi and A.J Kolawole (2015): Salient Themes in African Poetry: a re-Appraisal of Library and Information Utilization Process for New Media. Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion Vol 3 No 1, pp 1-11. ISSN: 2422-8443
16. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2014): ‘The Configuration of Gender in Nigerian Literature’. New York: USA. International Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies. June
Edition, Vol 2 No 2 pp 43-59. ISSN: (print): 2333-6021, (online): ISSN: 2333-603X.http://ijgws.com/journals/ijgws/Vol_2_No_2_June_2014/2.pdf
17. Echendu Fidelis and Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi. (2014): Okot’p Bitek’s Songs of Lawino: Singing about the Rights of Present African Women. Journal of Language and Communication. Vol 1 No 1 (Pakistan). Pp 9-15. ISSN: (print). 2313-3961, (online): ISSN: 2313-2973
18. Niyi Akingbe, Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi (2013): Confronting Inequity in Nigerian Social Milieu: Apprehending Class Stratification in Festus Iyayi‟s Violence. Journal of Literature and Art Studies, Vol 3: 3 USA. pp 144-157. ISSN: 2159-583 http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/551ded92ed369.pdf
19. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. (2013): Exile as Motif in Lenrie Peters‟ He Walks Alone‟: Trends in identity, Policy and Globalization. Journal of Culture. Society and Development. New York Vol 1 p.100-103. ISSN: 2422-8400https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JCSD/article/view/9162/9381
20. Akingbe, Niyi, Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi and Abiola Akinkugbe (2013): Sustaining the Heritage: Assessing the Aesthetics of Verbal Symbolization and Signification in Idanre Orature. VENETS: The Belogradchik Journal for Local History, Cultural Heritage and Folk Studies, Bulgaria. Vol 3 No 3. pp 360-375 ISSN: (Print) 1314-0426, (online). ISSN: 1314-0256 http://www.venets.org/getfile.php?id=135
21. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2013): Conflagrated Violence in Literature of Diaspora, Wright and Baldwin. AFFREV LALIGENS.An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. Vol 2 (1): pp 84-94. ISSN: (print) 2225-8604, ISSN: 2227-5460 (online).https://www.ajol.info/index.php/laligens/issue/view/11445
22. Ogunyemi Christopher Babatunde (2013): A Meta-Critical Study of Akachi Ezeigbo’s Perspectives on Children Literature in Nigeria: Narratology as Scientific Instrument, Morality and Didactics in Analysis. The Indian Review of World Literature in English (July IRWLE Vol 9: No II,) pp 1-11 ISSN: 0974-097X worldlitonline.net/Christopher-Babatunde-Ogunyemi.pdf
23. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde, Niyi Akingbe and Abosede Otemuyiwa (2013): ‘Living Anonymity: Exile as Motif in Lenrie Peters’ “He Walks Alone’ International Journal of Applied Linquistics and English Literature. (IJALEL).Vol 2 No 2. pp. 204–208. ISSN: 2200-3592 (print), ISSN: 2200-3452 (print) http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/924/855 doi:10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.2p.204
24. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2012): Digital Literacy and Space Technology in Nigeria Journal of Space Technology. Pakistan No1 Vol 1 pp.50-60 ISSN 2077-3099 (Print); ISSN 2411-5029 (Online) http://www.ist.edu.pk/jst/previous-issues/july-2012
25. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2011): Narratology and Gender Discourse in Male Autobiographical Narratives: A Passing Reference. Proceedings of International Conference
on Proceedings of International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities. Vol 1 No 1 Porto Novo, Republic of Benin Pp 83-88
26. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2011): Salient Themes as Voices in African Poetry‟. Venets:The Belogradchik Journal for Local History, Cultural Heritage andFolk Studies. University of Sofia. Bulgaria. Venets 2-2 pp.227-251.ISSN: (Print) 1314-0426, (online). ISSN: 1314-0256 http://www.venets.org/getfile.php?id=103
27. Alokan, Olusegun. AP and Christopher Babatunde Ogunyemi. (2011): An Examination of the Politics of Schism and Secession Among Indigenous Pentecostal Groups in Nigeria: Trends and Prognosis in Christian Literature‟. Journal of Education and Practice. (New York): JEP Vol 2 No 6, pp.21-32 ISSN: 2222-1735 (paper), ISSN: 2222-288X (Online)
28. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. I O Akindutire and O J Adelakun (2011): “A Study on Gender Consciousness in Nigerian Autobiographical Narratives and Power of the Interview. Journal of Education and Practice, New York. Vol 2 No4. pp.92-104. ISSN: 2222-1735 (paper), ISSN: 2222-288X (Online)
29. Akingbe, Niyi, Christopher B Ogunyemi and Abosede Otemuyiwa. (2011): ‘Interrogating Power Relations in Contemporary Nigeria: Protest and Social Relevance in Festus Iyayi‟s Violence‟. Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research andPolicy Studies (JETERAPS) United Kingdom 2(4): pp 301-309. ISSN: 2141-6990
30. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2011): The Image of African Dictator Figure in the Post- Colonial Achebe Novels‟. JABU International Journal of Social and Management Sciences. Nigeria. Vol 3 No 1. pp 24-33. ISSN: 2141-4025
31. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. (2011): Literacy and Space Technology in Nigeria, International journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence. University of Cassino, Italy. (July- September). Vol. 2. No.3. pp. 31-40. ISSN: 1947-3494 doi:10.4018/jdldc.2011070103 SCOPUS
32. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2011):‘Genderization’in Male Autobiographical Narratives in Nigeria. Journal of Black Masculinity, ed. C. P. Gause (University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA) Vol1, No. 3 Summer. (Special Issue) p 34-55. ISSN: 2158-9623
33. Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde (2010): ´Wisdom and Age in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ‘Journal of Communication and Culture: International Perspective. Vol 1. No 3, Dec. pp 120-125 ISSN: 2141-2758

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Positions

• Academic Associate-Institute for Gender Studies, UNISA
• Senior Lecturer: Adekunle Ajasin University.  
• Senior Lecturer: Ajayi Crowther University
• Lecturer: Joseph Ayo Babalola Universit

Fellowship

•  Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of South Africa

Projects

PROJECTS

        (2023: Julius Malema’s Thematization of Afrocentricity and Blackism in South African   Gendered-Public Space

         (2023): The Instrumentality of Social Media in the Representation of Nigerian Literature

Other

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1459-997X

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Ogunyemi

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_CK9kQcAAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56910067900