Shola Balogun Biography

Shola Balogun is a scholar, author, and theatre-trained playwright with a great love of teaching, writing, and research. Adept at engaging the society through stage plays, poetry and films with interest in examining discourses on theatrical aesthetics through the lens of indigenous African traditions, performing identity and hybridity in Contemporary Nigerian Theatre, Balogun's credits include Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, a University of Florida Press journal (with Abiodun J. Macaulay) , the International Journal of African Society, Cultures and Traditions (UK) , Philologist, a Journal of the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (with Abiodun J. Macaulay) , Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City, The Invisible Bear, a Journal affiliated with Duke University's English Department Graduate Poetry Working Group in Durham, North Carolina, The Tau: The Literary and Visual Art Journal of Lourdes University, Sylvania, Ohio, Nebo: A Literary Journal of the Department of English, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, and several other literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Winner of the First Prize, Festival Of Peace Poetry Award (2005) , Olaudah Equiano Poetry Prize (2002) . He lives in Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa.