AKINWUNMI Paul Akintunde

Lecturer II

Email address(es): aakinwumi@oauife.edu.ng / tundeakin08@gmail.com

Office Address: Room 305, Department of Linguistics and African

Languages, African Studies Building, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

Academic Qualifications: Ph.D Yorùbá Language and Literature. 2016 -2018.

M.A Yorùbá Language and Literature. 2013 -2015.

B.A Yorùbá 1999 – 2004.

Areas of Specialization: Yoruba Oral and Postcolonial Literature, Gender,

Cultural and Environmental Studies.

Title of M.A. Thesis: An Examination of Themes and Stylistics Devices in Segun Akinlolu’s Songs

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A Literary Analysis of Security Issues in selected Yoruba Oral Writing Literature.

Scholarship Awards: Chief Alex Akinyele Prize –

For the best male graduating Student in the Faculty of Arts whose final class of degree is not below Second Class Honours (Upper Division) – 2004.

Professor Wande Abimbola Prize – For the student with the best overall performance in the B.A. Yoruba Degree Examination – 2004.

Fellowships (If any): NIL

Research Grants (If any): NIL

Ongoing Research:

Protest Songs: A force against Injustice and Social Inequality.

The Trajectory of Motherhood in Patriarchal Social Setting: Evidence in Selected Yorùbá Written Literature.

Oral Tradition – A Repository of Cultural Heritage: Evidence in Selected Pottery Related Proverbs.

The Challenges of Modernity on Abiyamọ and Abiyaya: A Parental Mannerism and Ethical balance in Yorùbá Indigenous Gender Discourse.

List of Publications:

Akinwumi, P.A (2023). Yorùbá Poetry: An Elixir of the Nigerian National Security and Integration. Ifẹ̀ Journal of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (IJLLL): A Journal of the department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria. Vol 9(1), 1-26.

Akinwumi, P.A & Ademuyiwa, A.L (2024). Àjùlọ àti Ìjákulẹ̀ Ẹ̀dá-Ìtàn nínú àwọn Àṣàyàn Ìwé Ìtàn Àròsọ Yorùbá: LÁÀŃGBÀSÀ: A Journal of the department of Liguistics, African and Asian Studies, University of Lagos, Lagos. Nigeria. Vol 24, 22-36.

Akinwumi, P.A (2024). Ìgbéyẹ̀wò Ìwé Ìtàn Àròsọ Fágúnwà Gẹ́gẹ́ bi Àká Ìmọ̀ Fókílọ̀ọ̀ Yorùbá. in: Ilúfoye, F.O, Hakeem, O., Sa’adu, T, & Ademuyiwa, A.L, The Voice of the Folklorist, Ibadan: Bookminds, 427-438.