{"id":42400,"date":"2011-04-27T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T20:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=42400"},"modified":"2021-02-09T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:13:09","slug":"tejumola-olaniyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/04\/27\/tejumola-olaniyan\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Wisconsin professor visits Bates to discuss African political cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/olaniyan_teju_portr05.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/05\/olaniyan_teju_portr05-199x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Teju Olaniyan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tejumola Olaniyan, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents the lecture <em>On Bigness: Wealth, Power and Body Size in African Political Cartoons<\/em> at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in Bates College&#8217;s Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall (G52).<\/p>\n<p>Presented in conjunction with the &#8220;Considering Africa&#8221; general education concentration at Bates and with the participation of the Africana Club, the event is sponsored by the anthropology department. For more information, please contact 207-786-6933.<\/p>\n<p>Olaniyan, the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English at Wisconsin, is working on a book about political cartoonists in English-speaking African countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2005 University of Wisconsin-Madison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/11935\">news article<\/a> by Barbara Wolff, Olaniyan said that his subject is universally relevant. &#8220;My current work pays homage to the heroic people who put their visionary ideas that our society could be better than it is into committed practice, often at a great personal cost,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Olaniyan&#8217;s research centers around the African diaspora, postcolonial literary and cultural studies, and popular culture studies. His publications include the books <em>Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics<\/em> (Indiana University Press, 2004) and <em>Scars of Conquest\/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 1995).<\/p>\n<p>Olaniyan maintains the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africa.wisc.edu\/politicalcartooninginafrica\/.\">Political Cartoonists and Cartooning in Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tejumola Olaniyan, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presents the lecture &#8220;On Bigness: Wealth, Power and Body Size in African Political Cartoons&#8221; at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in Bates College&#8217;s Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall (G52).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10771,652,10769,10770],"class_list":["post-42400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batesnews","tag-africa","tag-africana-club","tag-anthropology","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86708,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42400\/revisions\/86708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}