Uzoma Esonwanne, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Ifa and Ijala: a feasibility study of Yoruba oral culture
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$45,701
Repetition: theory and practice in postcolonial African and diasporic literatures and popular cultures
SSHRC · 2001 · Principal investigator
$50,893

All 2 grants and awards

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Ifa and Ijala: a feasibility study of Yoruba oral culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Esonwanne, Uzoma

Keywords: oral discourse; Ifa; Ijala; postcolonial Africa; digital culture; digitalization; oral-digital interface; subjectivity; postcolonial subjects; information media; globalization and global cultures; history; oral and written and digital utterances

$45,701

Repetition: theory and practice in postcolonial African and diasporic literatures and popular cultures

Principal investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Esonwanne, Uzoma

Keywords: theory of repetition; postcolonial; African; diasporic; literatures; popular culture; critical theory; postcolonial criticism; black literatures and cultures; African oral performance; intertextual and intratextual repetition

$50,893

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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