Onookome Okome

Onookome Okome is currently the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He earned his PhD in cinema and theatre studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1991, and has been teaching at the University of Calabar since 1989. Widely traveled, Okome has given lectures in Brazil, Switzerland, Ireland, the UK, the USA, and Israel. His publications includes Cinema and Social Change in West Africa (with Jonathan Haynes, 1997), The Sight of Sound: Sound in the Media and on Stage (with L.... O. M. Enendu et al, 1994). Before I am Hanged: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Literature, Politics and Dissent (2000), Ogun’s Children: The Literature and Politics of Wole Soyinka Since the Nobel (2002), and Writing The Homeland: The Poetry and Politics of Tanure Ojaide (2002). His essays have appeared in African Literature Today, Research in African Literatures, World Literature Today, CinemAction, and Glendora. He is currently researching popular video films in Africa.