The WATJCentre Lecture Series is designed as a means of bridging the gap between scholars and practitioners in the field of transitional justice by creating a platform for renowned experts to share their experiences on transitional justice initiatives across different parts of the globe.
Mr Ibini Oladapo Adeola
Mr Ibini Oladapo Adeola is an entrepreneur, author, researcher, and documentary producer with interests spanning the automotive industry, technology, literature, and African Hebrew Studies. A graduate of the University of Lagos, he began his professional career in 1997 during his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme at Nigercafe, a coffee processing and exporting firm. Following…
Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He has scholarly interests in African and African/Black Diaspora literatures. His scholarship primarily focuses on the cultural representations of genocides and mass atrocities within African and African diasporic contexts. Anyaduba is the author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel:…
Dr Adaobi Nkeokelonye
Adaobi holds a Doctorate in Literary and Cultural Studies (University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia), an M.A. in Development Studies (Institute of Development Studies (IDS) University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom) and a B.A. in English Language (University of Lagos, Nigeria). She is a social development researcher with over 22 years of practical experience working with…
Dr Krystal Strong
Dr. Krystal Strong is an associate professor of Black Studies in Education at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. An anthropologist by training, her research and teaching use ethnographic, participatory, and multimodal methods to investigate youth and community activism, global Black social movements, and the role of education as a site of struggle in Africa and the African…
Professor Sola Olorunyomi
Professor Sola Olorunyomi is a Research Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and the Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. He obtained his PhD in African Literature from the same university and his specialization covers textual and narrative structures of literary and performance cultures, covering oral and manuscript, print and…
Hebrew Migration from the Lens of Southwest Nigeria
WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Mr Ibini Oladapo Adeola, Convener, African Hebrew Documentation and Resource Centre, Nigeria Moderator: Mr Oladapo Pelumi Olukoya, Research Officer, WATJCentre, Nigeria Date: October 14, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/e_l-_c3eTRqmXzFlKcP0yA
The Residuum of Memory: The Holocaust in African Atrocity Literatures and Cultures
WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Professor Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba, Associate Professor of English, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Moderator: Stephanie O. Adams Douglas, Senior Programme Manager, HumAngle Foundation, Nigeria Date: July 30, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/OY5Ky_drSvOrBMUEBqOVNQ
Decoloniality and Development in African Literary Tradition
WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Dr Adaobi Nkeokelonye, Visiting Lecturer, African University of Science and Technology; Research Fellow, WATJCentre, Nigeria Moderator: Dr Ndidi Njoku, Research and Policy Manager, Nextier, Nigeria Date: April 16, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/A5_TSyMdS4qITZqnkvY25A
Movement as Method: Bridging Scholarship, Community and Activism
WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Dr Krystal Strong,Associate Professor of Black Studies in Education, Rutgers University, USA Moderator: Dr Monica E. Akokuwebe, Senior Researcher, SAMRC, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Date: January 15, 2026 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/Hhh3IS42RLuoW9ubjhseqA?fbclid=IwY2xjawPjGD5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyYzBsMGpvYjNkYlE0Znhpc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHp0WCARUocwIdxNrB7QpdNQedsVOWUNyqbiE15p0UjQemc3at9Y1SqAX7BhF_aem_J-3OQulXco_JlWjS1JnPUw#/registration
Our Future is NOT Their Future: Sola Olorunyomi on African Futurity
WATJCentre Distinguished Personality Lecture Series Speaker: Prof Sola Olorunyomi, Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Moderator: Dr Anthony Agbegbedia, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Federal University Oye Ekiti, Nigeria Date: October 2, 2025 Time: 3pm (GMT+1 ) Platform: Zoom Registration Link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/XsTOxkpIRLmB8dvMLnLXVQ