Born in Ibadan, SouthWest Nigeria, she was educated at the University of Ibadan, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree and a Master of Arts degree in communication and language arts.
She graduated as a Ph.D. holder in dance and theater at the University of Texas, Austin.
[1] She works with The Punch newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, as a writer.
Some of her articles include ‘Coming to America: Race, Class, Nationality and Mobility in “African” hip hop’ 2013; Pentecostal Panopticism and the Phantasm of “The Ultimate Power” 2018; ‘The Spirit Names the Child: Pentecostal Names and Trans-ethics’ 2020; ‘Black Lives Matter!
: Language and Why Black Performance Matters’ 2019; ‘Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal politics in Africa’ 2018; ‘Godmentality: Pentecostalism as performance in Nigeria’ 2017; ‘The Ghosts of Performance Past: Theatre, Gender, Religion and Cultural Memory’ 2017; ‘Spectacular Prophecies: Examining Pentecostal Power in Africa’ 2017; ‘Remixing Religion: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference’ 2014; ‘Yoruba Studies Review’ and ‘I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary’[2][3]