James Túndé Yékú is a Nigerian-Canadian writer and associate professor of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas.
His research interests include: African literature, digital humanities, Social media, cultural studies, postcolonial and decolonial theories, and Nollywood.
Yékú is the author of Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2022), and the poetry collection Where The Baedeker Leads: A Poetic Journey, which received an honorable mention for the 2023 African Literature Association Best Book Award for creative writing.
A year later, he moved to the University of Kansas where he is currently an associate professor at its Department of African and American Studies and the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities.
[12] Yékú was the winner of the 2022 Pius Adesanmi Early Career Research Excellence Award from the Canadian Association of African Studies.