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Olabode Festus Omojola

Honor

Omojola, B. 2023. Panel Chair and organizer: “African Art Music: Autonomy, Pan-Africanism, and Cultural Patriotism.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “African Pianism, Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Nationalism: A Study of the Music of Halim El-Dabh.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “Pitch Organization and Narratology in Post-Colonial African Opera: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” The African Operatic Voice Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Public Lecture: “Opera as Political Narrative: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria, August 4, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Keynote Speaker: “Musical Emblems of the African Postcolony: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Decoloniality.” International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, University of Ghana, Accra, July 13-19, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. “Tributes to Bode Omojola: Paradigms and Encounters in African Musicology.” MUSON Center, Lagos, Nigeria, July 22. Organized by Bode Omojola’s colleagues and former students.

Convened and directed a 3-day exploratory seminar titled “African Art Music: Composers, Performers, and Scholars in Dialogue.” It was hosted by Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2021 and featured participants from Africa, Europe, and the United States.

Featured in a BBC Documentary: Classical Commonwealth (Exploring the fusion of classical music with local traditions across the British Commonwealth, February 24, 2021).

Was a webinar guest speaker at Universität Bayreuth, Germany on January 14, 2021. His lecture was titled, Oper bewegt - Towards an African Operatic Voice.

 

Brahim Oulbeid

Publication

Back, M., & Oulbeid, B. (October 2022). Examining instructional contexts and student beliefs in Arabic teacher recruitment. Second Language Research & Practice, 3(1).