Bimbola Akinbola
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of Transatlantic Disbelonging (Duke University Press, 2025), speaking about Nigerian diasporic women's art.
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Apr 6, 2026 • 1h 6min
Bimbola Akinbola, "Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women's Art" (Duke UP, 2025)
Bimbola Akinbola, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of Transatlantic Disbelonging, explores Nigerian diasporic women artists. She discusses reframing diaspora from loss to playful self‑definition. Topics include unruliness as return, eroticism and anti‑respectability, speculative worldbuilding, cross‑media collaboration, and homemaking through art.
