Dotun Ayobade (he/him) is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in Performance Studies and Black Studies at Northwestern University. He studies the embodied aspects of culture that agitate for community, justice and activism in West Africa. He is equally invested in understanding how artists who are alert to issues of political economy mobilise aesthetic and everyday social performance to generate legibility and read against the grain. Ayobade’s work sits at the intersection of Performance Studies, Black Studies and African Cultural Studies.
