Akin Odebunmi is a Yoruba Nigerian Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis in the Department of English, University of Ibadan.
[7][8] He is the co-editor (with Arua E. Arua and Sailal Arimi) of Language, Gender and Politics: A Festschrift for Yisa Kehinde Yusuf, Language, Grammar and Applied Linguistics: Essays in Honour of Wale Osisanwo (with Ayo Osisanwo, Stella Ekpe and Helen Aduke), Face and Identity Construction in HIV/AIDS Discourse (with Joyce Mathangwane) and Language, Context and Society: A Festschrift for Wale Adegbite (with Kehinde A. Ayoola).
Other co-edited works are; Style in Religious Communication in Nigeria (with Babajide Adeyemi), Perspectives on Media Discourse (with Rotimi Taiwo, and Akin Adetunji), Studies in Slang and Slogans (with Sola Babatunde, Akin Adetunji and Mahfouz Adedimeji), Language, Literature and Discourse (with Ayo Ogunsiji and Ayo Kehinde), The Sociology of English in Nigeria (with Akinmade Akande), English in the Theological Context (with Moses Alo), Essays on language, Communication and Literature in Africa (with Joyce Mathangwane), and Analysing Language and Humor in Online Discourse (with Rotimi Taiwo, and Akin Adetunji).
[13] In a book edited by E. Adegbija and A. Ofuya titled English and Communication Skills for MESTA Students and published in 1996, Odebunmi coined the term 'abbronym'.
He also headed the Local Organising Committee for UI Faculty of Arts International Conference held in March, 2017.