Sage Appoints Two Alumni Editors

Sage appoints Two Alumni Editors

The Global SAGE publications has appointed Dr Jude Dunkwu (Editor-in-Chief) and Professor Sola Olorunyomi (Editor) as Series Editors of the SAGE Handbook of African Epistemologies and Qualitative Research.

Jude Dunkwu
Jude Dunkwu is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. He is a scholar working at the intersection of African epistemologies, organisational and management thought, and higher education. He holds doctorates in Management (University of Plymouth) and Education (UCL Institute of Education), an M.Ed. (University of Cambridge), and, from the University of Ibadan, an M.I.L.R. and a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics. He also holds a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Oxford.
His current work recovers Ònyéàyànà, an Igbo ethico-ontological principle, and develops from it a programme spanning metaethics (the proposed category of the Ought-Is), applied governance (Relational Obligation across eleven domains), and methodology (Generative Constructive Decolonisation). He serves on the editorial board of African Notes, the journal of the Institute. He is Editor-in-Chief of the SAGE Handbook of African Epistemologies and Qualitative Research and Global Editor of SAGE Business Cases: Emerging Economies of Africa. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK, the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) UK, the Society for Education and Training (FSET) UK, and the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) UK.

Sola Olorunyomi
Sola Olorunyomi is a Research Professor in the Cultural and Media Studies programme at the Institute of African Studies and obtained his PhD in African Literature from the University of Ibadan. His specialisation and research interests include textual and narrative structures of literary and performance cultures, covering oral and manuscript, print and electronic, film and new media in Africa and the Black Diaspora.
He served as the Quondam Director of the University Media Centre and as the former Postgraduate Sub-Dean at IAS-UI. He is well published in both local and international outlets. He has participated, over the past decades, in conferences and seminars across Africa and the Black Diaspora, including Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Senegal, South Africa, and Brazil, to mention a few. He has also participated in seminars under the auspices of Free Muse, Copenhagen-Denmark, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg-Austria, and WIU Macomb-Illinois, USA, among others.
As his research engagements in the last thirty years has spanned West Africa, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica and North America, where he taught 'Black Aesthetic Continuities and Ruptures' at Northwestern University, Evanston. He has also developed recent research thrusts relating to the possibilities of intersecting digital technologies with the earliest phases of memorialization as a critical enterprise in futurity and self-narrativity, conceptualized in his coinage 'wombiture'.