Abdoulaye Diouf

Abdoulaye holds a PhD in British and Commonwealth Studies, as well as an MA and postdoctoral qualifications in African Literature, with a specific focus on the works of Wole Soyinka, including Aké, Death and the King's Horseman, and Idanre and Other Poems. He is currently employed as an OpenSpace Digital Manager at Cheikh Hamidou KANE Digital University. His research interests lie in postcolonial literary criticism, the intersection of oral and written traditions in African drama, the poetics of political resistance, and the representation of Yoruba cosmology in Soyinka’s oeuvre. Keywords: African literature, Wole Soyinka, postcolonial theory, Yoruba culture, dramatic tragedy, African poetry. His primary countries of focus are Nigeria and Ireland, Commonwealth nations.