Biodun Jeyifo

There was a movement: A preliminary, counterintuitive Marxist analysis of Peter Obi and the Obidients

It was the strongly counterintuitive nature of my initial interest in Peter Obi and the…

For Jeyifo (BJ) and Komolafe (KK)

    By Edwin Madunagu This is not a tribute in the usual sense the…

Osofisan Fetes Biodun Jeyifo and Olu Obafemi

Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Saturday January 5, 2019, friends, family, colleagues, writers, students and activists, gathered together…

Biodun Jeyifo to be Honoured by OAU

Professor Biodun Jeyifo, a Professor Emeritus in the English Department at Cornell University, Ithaca, USA…

The fascinating aspects of Akinwumi Isola’s verbal dexterity and panache

This is a slightly revised excerpt from the Foreword to one of Professor Akinwumi Isola’s…

Was it Adorno, Benjamin or Althusser? – for Dapo Olorunyomi @60

By Biodun Jeyifo If he had not gone on to become the investigative journalist extraordinaire…

Biodun Jeyifo: I am not a dogmatic Marxist

He is clearly patrician in the way he acquires and disseminates knowledge but his general…

Kunle Ajibade: Biodun Jeyifo’s Humanising Pedagogy

Kunle Ajibade When we learnt on December 14 1987 that Dr Biodun Jeyifo had resigned…

In pictures: Biodun Jeyifo @ 70 conference

A conference was held on Thursday 21 January to mark Professor Biodun Jeyifo's 70t birthday…

Some Reflections On Wole Soyinka

by Biodun Jeyifo Last semester, I taught Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel for…