Diedre Badejo, Ph.D. Comparative Literature (UCLA)
Professor and Chair, Pan-African Studies Department
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Diedre Badejo, Ph.D. Comparative Literature (UCLA)
Professor and Chair, Pan-African Studies Department
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Areas of Interest
African American and African literatures, Women’s Studies, African religion and mythology
- “African Bibliography: 1989 Annual.” Callaloo: The Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters (1990): 848-909.
- “Femininity as a Literary and Social Function of Power in Yoruba Oral Literature.” In Religion and Society in Nigeria. Ed. J. Olupona and Toyin Falola. Ibadan: Ibadan UP, 1991. 77-92.
- “African Feminism: (Re)visioning the Social Order.” The Afrocentric Scholar: The Journal for the National Council for Black Studies (1992): 183-94.
- “The Bridges: Africans and Africans in the Diaspora.” Uhuru (Accra, Ghana) 4 (1992): 66-68.
- With E. Coli, N. Yacoubou, and O. Traore.” “La Porte sans retour: Recit oral de captivité l’Île de Goree.” The Literary Griot 7 (1995): 1-19.
- “Òsun Sèègèsì: The Deified Power of African Women and the Social Ideal.” Dialogue and Alliance 9 (1995): 55-66. Rpt. in The Literary Griot 7 (1995): 89-100.
- Òsun Sèègèsì: The Elegant Deity of Wealth, Power, and Femininity. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1996.
- “African Feminism: Mythical and Social Power of Women of African Descent.” Research in African Literatures 29 (1998): 92-111.
- “Birthing Orality in Mother Tongue Ebonics: Sister Sonia Speaks.” The Literary Griot 10 (1998): 85-94.
- “Triply: Three Views on the Status of African Progress since Independence.” The Journal of African Studies 16 (1998): 9-11.
- “The Orisa Principle: Divining African Literary Aesthetics.” In Orality, Literacy and the Fictive Imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures. Ed. T. Spencer-Walters. Troy MI: Bedford, 1999. 45-70.