The Society for Textual Cultures 2025 Colloquium Series: “From the Oral Text to TikTok: Remediation and Elesin Oba’s Textual Itineraries.” | October 3, 2025.
Invited to the Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute hosted by Schmidt Sciences in Paris| September 24-26, 2025.
Keynote: Analogue Aesthetics and Digital Signals|Federal University, Wukari & the University of Zululand | International Conference: “Researching African Literature, Language and Culture: Old Forms, New Frames”| Sept. 22, 2025.
MSSU: “Cultural Netizenship and the Limits of the Digital Public Sphere”|Fall 2025 West Africa Themed Semester -Missouri Southern State University| Sept. 9, 2025.
University of Kansas: “Ambivalent Digitality and The Stickiness of Algorithms” | Navigating Our Worlds: Ethics in The Digital World‘| October 1, 2024.
University of Kansas: “Platformed Cultural Productions and Protest Hashtags” |Social Media in War and Protest Virtual Educator Workshop| April 26, 2025.
Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen: Africa Seminar: ‘The Sound of Memes: Cultural Netizenship and The Intermediality of the Memesphere’| March 20, 2024.
Oxford School of Global and Area Studies: African Studies Research Seminar|African Literature and Cancel Culture: The Algorithmic Age of Personality|February 29, 2024.
Screening and Panel on „Taiwo Shango,“ The German Historical Museum, Berlin, (with Christine Matzke, Wolfgang Fuhrmann, and Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong ; Friday, 8 Dec 2023)
Afrikakolloquium|Institute for Asian and African Studies, HU, Berlin: Cancelling Adichie: African Literature and the Algorithmic Politics of Social Media Outrage|November 8, 2023.
ConTrust Speaker Series, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: Nigerian Digital Humor and the Cultural Politics of Public Trust, 30 Oktober 2023 / 18:15 – 19:45.
NELK Workshops: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt: “#EndSARS: Literary-Cultural Activism and the Afterlives of Hashtags” (June 6, 2023).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Africa at Noon: Topic: “The Archival Possibilities of Social Media.” Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Fellows Colloquium, Center for Advanced Internet Studies: “What is African Digital Humanities?” Universitätsstr. 104, Bochum, 44799 (October 12, 2022).
News
Podcast: Interview by Rick Hellman (KU News Services) for When Experts Attack on Kansas Public Radio, with discussions on algorithms, social media cancel culture, African literature, and more.
Interviewed by Rachel Chason for The Washington Post Story “How A Little-Known Coup Leader Became A Pan-African Hero.”
KU News: Author spotlights ‘Algorithmic Age of Personality’ in African literature.
Mail and Guardian: Behind concerns over Afcon is a culture of disdain
KU News: KU African studies scholar explains his ‘Ambivalent Encounters’
CBC‘s 45 Canadian poetry collections to watch for in fall 2021: Where The Baedeker Leads
KU News: From Lagos to Lawrence: ‘Where the Baedeker Leads’
arts 24: Poetry is not a luxury: Soro Soke captures the poetics of the #ENDSARS protest in Nigeria
BBC: Nigeria: The Country That Loves to Overachieve
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