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• Professor of Religion and African Studies, University of Leeds

Profile Articles Activity

I'm a scholar of religion and African studies. My broad interest is in the role of religion in contemporary African social, cultural and political life, with a focus on themes of gender and sexuality, ecology, and social activism.

Experience

• 2021–present Extraordinary Professor, University of the Western Cape
• 2020–present Chair professor, University of Leeds
• 2015–2019 Associate professor, University of Leeds
• 2013–2015 Lecturer, University of Leeds

Education

• 2011 Utrecht University, PhD

Publications

• 2025 Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Penn State University Press
• 2021 Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (co-authored with Ezra Chitando), Hurst & Co / Oxford University Press
• 2019 Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and Arts of Resistance in Africa, Penn State University Press
• 2019 Religions in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction (co-authored with Laura Grillo and Hassan Ndzovu), Routledge
• 2016 Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa (co-edited with Ezra Chitando), Routledge
• 2016 Public Religion and the Politics of Sexuality in Africa (co-edited with Ezra Chitando), Routledge
• 2013 Transforming Masculinities in African Christianity: Gender Controversies in Times of AIDS, Ashgate

Professional Memberships

• African Studies Association of the UK
• African Association for the Study of Religions

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