Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah

Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah, (1962- ) is the vice chancellor of Kwara State University in Nigeria

He received a BA in 1988 from University of Ilorin, with a thesis "Dadakuada: the trends in the development of Ilorin traditional oral poetry", subsequently published in African Notes., and in 1992 received a M.A. Literature in English from the same university. In 1999, he received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and was subsequently professor and chair of African Studies at Western Illinois University. He is now the vice chancellor or Kwara State University in Nigeria.

He is the author and co-author of numerous books, but some books of his that are most recent are African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance (Routledge, 2010) and Africanity, Islamicity, and Performativity: Identity in the House of Ilorin (Bayreuth African Studies, 2009), and edited a poetry book, Obama-Mentum: An Anthology of Transformational Poetry.

Dr. Na’Allah has been nominated for and received numerous awards, including the Gold Key Recognition Award, University of Alberta Student Union, 1998; the Graduate Student Service Award, GSA, University of Alberta; The Alberta Heritage Charles S Noble Award for Student Leadership, 1998, the Province of Alberta, Canada; and the Black Achievements Award, Post-Secondary—Scholastic, 1998, the Black Achievement Awards Society of Alberta.Dr. Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah is the author and co-author of numerous books, including: coauthor with Ladan Sulaiman and Ahmad Sambo, Functional Literacy Primer in Hausa, sponsored by the European Economic Commission and Federal Government of Nigeria, 1992; coauthor, Instructors’ Guide to Functional Literacy Primer in Hausa, 1992; coauthor with Bayo Ogunjimi, Introduction to African Oral Literature (Oral Prose), University of Ilorin Press, 1991; author, Introduction to African Oral Literature (1994); and Editor, Ogoni’s Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria (Africa World Press, 1998)

He wrote the article on Kwame Anthony Appiah for The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought

Books

• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. Cultural Globalization and Plurality: Africa and the New World. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011.
• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. African Discourse in Islam, Oral Traditions, and Performance. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 0203863585
  • Review, by Robert Cancel in African Studies Review, v50 n1 (Apr., 2007): 211-213
  • Review, by Beverly B. Mack in Research in African Literatures, 42, no. 1 (2011): 185
• Bayo Ogunjimi; Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah Introduction to African oral literature and performance Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005.
  • Review, by Robert Cancel, in African studies review. 50, no. 1, (2007): 211
• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. Ahmadu fulani: an African poetry. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2004.
• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed, and Niyi Osundare. The People's Poet: Emerging Perspectives on Niyi Osundare. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003.
  • Review, by Fidelis Odun Balogun Research in African Literatures, 35, no. 4 (2004): 186-188
• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. Almajiri: a new African poetry. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001.
• Naʼallah, Abdul Rasheed. Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998. ISBN 9780865436473

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