Taiwo Afolabi

Taiwo Afolabi

Title or Function

  • Researcher

Expertise

  • Performance; Socially Engaged Theatre; Research Ethics; Culture.

Institution/Organization

  • University of Regina - Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre/Department of Theatre

Regional Center

  • Ouest (Regina)

Email Address

Websites

Telephone

  • 306-585-5519

Biography

Dr Taiwo Afolabi is a Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre; Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina. He is an artist, qualitative researcher, theatre manager, applied theatre practitioner and educator with a decade of experience working across a variety of creative and community contexts in over dozen countries across four continents. He researches, creates works, performs, and teaches at the intersection of performance and human ecology. His research interests lie in the areas of applied theatre and policing, social justice, decolonization, art leadership and management, migration, and the ethics of conducting arts-based research. Dr. Afolabi has co-edited two books and published articles in various books and reputable journals. He is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and the founding artistic director of Theatre Emissary International.

Publications

Afolabi, T., Okpadah, S., and Onikoyi, B. (in peer review). “Film and cultural diplomacy in post-colonial Africa: Nollywood and Nigeria cultural policy” In Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa: Diplomacy, Soft Power, and Sustainability. Singapore: Palgrave (Afolabi Taiwo, Ogunnubi Olusola, and Shadrach Ukuma, eds.). 20pg.

Afolabi, T., Ogunnubi, O. and Terilya, S. (forthcoming). Re-centering Cultural Performance and Orange Economy in Post-colonial Africa: Policy, Soft Power, and Sustainability. Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan.

Onikoyi, T. and Afolabi, T. (eds.) (2021). The Cinema of Tunde Kelani: Aesthetics, Theatricalities and Visual Performance. Newcastle upon Tyndale: Cambridge Scholar Publishers.

Afolabi, T. (2021d). Theorizing ethical questioning in applied theatre research. Applied Theatre Research, 9.2, 99-116

Afolabi, T. (2021c). Theatre as service… My experience during the global pandemic in Canada. Canadian Theatre Review, 188, 38-41.

Afolabi, T. (2021b). On border and identity: a performative reflection from an applied theatre project, ArtPraxis. Vol. 8.1, 64-82.

Afolabi, T. (2021a). From writing ethics to doing ethics: ethical questioning of a practitioner. Research in Drama Education: the Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Vol. 26.2, 352-357.

Awards & Distinctions

Canada Research Chair Tier (II) in Socially Engaged Theatre

Director, Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre (C-SET), University of Regina

Miscellaneous

I love playing piano and spending time with my family.