MORUFU Bukola Omigbule
Email address(es): omigbulem@oauife.edu.ng
Office Address: Department of English
Academic Qualifications: M.A. Literature-in-English, Ph.D Literature-in-English
Areas of Specialization: Myth-ritual studies and literary ethnography
Title of M.A. Thesis: Dramatization of Yoruba Cosmology in Osun Osogbo and Olojo Festivals
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A Poetics of Selected Ritual Festivals in Ile-Ife
Fellowships: African Humanities Program (F’13)
Research Grants: TETFUND Conference Attendance Award 2018
Ongoing Current Research:
The Question of Animal Right in the Context of Yoruba Ritual Performances. Under the Weight of Modernity: The Changing Character and Context of Obatala Ritual Performance in Ile-Ife.
Publications:
Uwasomba, C. Mosobalaje, A and Coker, O. (Eds.), Existentialism, Literature and the Humanities in Africa: Essays in Honour of Professor Benedict Mobayonle Ibitokun. Gӧttingen [Germany]: Cuvillier Verlag, 44-56
Ogundipe, S.T. and Omigbule, M.B. (2013) Exploring the Cyberspace for Literary Engagement. In Adegbite, A. Adekoya, O. and Adegoju, A. (Eds.), Use of English: A Manual on Communicative Skills for Tertiary Institutions. Ile-Ife: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, 422-430
Omigbule. M.B. (2018) Oral Tradition and Sub-Cultural Consciousness of Akire People of Nigeria. In Chenna Reddy & Sarat Babu (Eds.), Pshycho-Cultural Analysis of Folklore: In Memory of Professor Alan Dundes. Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 435-444
Omigbule, M.B. (2019) Coordinate Agency: A Gender Theorizing on Gbajure-Olojo Ritual Performance in Ile-Ife. In Omotoso, S. A. & Oladejo, M. T. (Eds.), What Should Women Want? Before and Beyond… (Selected Essays to Commemorate WORDOC’s 30th Anniversary). Ibadan: Women Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC), 63-82
Omigbule, M.B. (2019): Upon the Exiting of a Devout Critic: Whither the Future of the African Novel? In Chijioke Uwasomba (Ed.), The Idea of African Fiction: Essays in Honour of Professor Chima Anyadike. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 28-41
Oripeloye, Henri and Omigbule, M.B. (2019): The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial. In Selin, H. and Rakoff, R. M. (Eds.), Death across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, Switzerland: Springer, 193-205
Omigbule, M.B. (2013): From Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa to Wole Soyinka: Re-Appraising the Critical Reception of Appropriated Yoruba Oral Traditional Materials, Journal of African Cultures and Languages, 2(1), 103-113 (Ghana) Omigbule, M.B. (2013): Proverbs in Wole Soyinka’s Construction of Paradox in The Lion a
nd the Jewel and Death and the King’s Horseman. Journal of Literary Studies, 29(1), 96-112 (United Kingdom/South Africa)
Omigbule, M.B. (2013): The Socio-Historical Import of Myth-making in B. M. Ibitokun’s Sopaisan: Westing Oodua, Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts, No. 7, 53-68 (Nigeria)
Omigbule, M.B. (2015): Discourse of African Rituals: Evaluating Selected Critical Perspectives on African Ritual Drama. Ife: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies, 11, 144-165 (Nigeria)
Omigbule, M.B. and Aanu Oluwakemi-Wale-Olaitan, (2016): Canonisation as a Factor in a Functional Nigerian Literary Culture. Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 18(2), 12-23 (Pennsylvania)
Mwaifuge, E.S. and Omigbule, M.B. (2016): Thematic Concerns of Tanzanian Poetry in English, Ife Studies in English Language (ISEL), 12 (2), 153-173 (Nigeria)
Omigbule, M.B. and Mwaifuge, E.S., (2017): Dramatizing Aborted Ritual: Postmodernist Imaginings in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman, English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies 34(2), 22-34 (South Africa) O
migbule M.B. (2017): Rethinking African Indigenous Ritual Festivals, Interrogating the Concept of African Ritual Drama, African Studies Quarterly, 17(3), 71-88 (Florida)
Omigbule M.B. (2017): Myth, Ritual and (Re)construction of the Yorùbá Identity in Olojo Ritual Performance. African Notes, 41 (1&2), 45-66 (Nigeria)
Omigbule M.B. (2018): Portraits of Arenas and Context of Understanding of Selected Ritual Performances of Ile-Ife. Ife: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies, Vol.13, 38-68 (Nigeria)
Omigbule M.B. (2019): On the Strength of Testimonials: Reconstructing D.O. Fagunwa’s Agency in the Development of Modern African Literature. Ife Journal of History, Vol.9 No I, 102-123 (Nigeria)
Omigbule, M.B. (2015): Book Review: City of 201 Gods: Ile-Ife in Time, Space, and the Imagination by Jacob K. Olupona, Ife Journal of the Humanities and Social Studies (IJOHUSS), 2(2), 170-173 (Nigeria)
Omigbule, M.B. (2016): Review of Ahmed Yerima’s Orisa Ibeji, 2014, Ife Journal of the Humanities and Social Studies (IJOHUSS), 3(1), 187-190 (Nigeria)
Staff Profile
I am Chairman, Osun State Government-Constituted Community Based School Management Council of Saint David’s High School II, Ile-Ife, 2016 to date and Editorial Board Member of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 2018 to date. I am also coordinating a project of cultural documentation, preservation and promotion at the Ooni of Ife’s palace, Ile-Ife.