Bio

Imomotimi Armstrong is a Researcher in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Nigeria, where he also teaches courses in African literature and popular culture. He received a PhD in African-language literature in 2020 from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Armstrong’s research interests include African folklore, oral literature, and popular music, with particular emphasis on the function(s) these cultural forms play in the Ịjọ community in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region. His research, some of which has been supported by the African Humanities Programme (AHP), Nigeria’s Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), and South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF), has recently appeared in Journal of the African Literature Association, Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, Africa Today, English Studies in Africa, Journal of African Media Studies, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, and elsewhere.