Awards & Honours

  • Black History Ottawa Community Builder Award (Community Leadership), 2018.
  • Raving Raven recognition for Teaching Excellence, September 2018.
  • FASS Early Career Award for Research Excellence (2017).
  • Capital Educators’ Award, 2016.
  • Carnegie Diaspora African Diaspora Scholar Fellowship to Delta State University, Nigeria (Summer 2015 and 2016).
  • University nominee, eCampus Ontario Project Grant of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU), 2016.
  • Carnegie Diaspora African Diaspora Scholar Fellowship (June 8 – August 31, 2015) to Delta State University, Nigeria.
  • Government of Canada Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (June 2012 – June 2014).
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Brown University (2011-2012 academic year).
  • Nominee, Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic distinction and outstanding doctoral dissertation (2011).
  • James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing (2010).
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2009).
  • William Rea Scholarship (2009).
  • Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize for Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2008.)
  • Professional Development Research Grant (2008).
  • Fellowship, The William Joiner Centre for War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. (2007).
  • University nominee, Trudeau Scholarship, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (2007).
  • FS Chia Doctoral Scholarship (2006).
Creative Writer, Author, & Literary Critic.