Director, Board of Trustees

Sola Olorunyomi, a writer and fine artist, teaches Folklore studies and African literature in the English Department of University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The author has published extensively on his research in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Nicaragua where he worked in the literacy and harvest volunteer project while also doubling as a freelance reporter behind Sandinista lines during the Contra offensive of the mid-1980s.

Professor Sola Olorunyomi is a recipient of several awards, scholarships, Fellowships and prizes in respect of undergraduate and postgraduate work.

Among them include Honor’s, Distinctions and Membership of Learned Societies:

- Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Austria
- Grant of the Prince Claus Fund, the Netherlands
- Association of Nigerian Authors, Nigeria
- African Literature Association (ALA), Africa/Diaspora
- Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nigeria