Dr. Nafiu Abdullahi
Level Coordinator, Faculty Exam Officer, PG Coordinator · English and Literary Studies
English and Literary Studies
Dr. Nafiu Abdullahi
Level Coordinator, Faculty Exam Officer, PG Coordinator
PhD English
Department of English and Literary Studies, Sule Lamido University Kafin Hausa, Jigawa State, Nigeria
- nafiu.abdullahi@slu.edu.ng
- ORCID
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1561-3187
- Staff number
- 035
Brief bio
Dr. Nafiu Abdullahi is a lecturer and researcher in English and Literary Studies at Sule Lamido University, Kafin Hausa. He holds a PhD in English. His research includes xenophobia and resistance in South African poetry, African feminism, Nigerian literature, psychoanalytic approaches to literature, and Hausa cultural practices. He has published on writers including Lola Shoneyin, Jumoke Verissimo, and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim.
More recently his interests have expanded to film and popular culture in Northern Nigeria. He is Editorial Secretary of the Kafin Hausa Journal of Language, Linguistics, and Literature, and he teaches and supervises at undergraduate and postgraduate level.