Resume
Education
2022 - Present
University of Cambridge, PhD Student, Sociology
My research is focused on the interplay between power and participation on social media platforms as an approach to understand online visibility in Nigeria.
2021 - 2022
University of Oxford, School of Global and Area Studies, MSc African Studies
My thesis was an online study of the Twitter (now X) Influencer economy and its implications for digital transformation in Nigeria. My research received the 2022 Terence Ranger Prize for the best dissertation.
2020 -2021
University of Cambridge, Department of Politics and International Studies, MPhil Development Studies
My research explored the political economy of digital technologies in Africa, including how they reproduce racial power relations, using the Johannesburg’s 2016 ‘Safe City’ AI initiatives as a case study.
2015 - 2019
University of Ibadan, BSc Sociology
Work
Experience
2024 - Present
Teaching Supervisor, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
I teach undergraduates on the following topics: 'Control and Resistance in Digital Societies’, ‘Visibility’, ‘Media, Design & Morality’, and ‘Populism, Media and Democracy’ under the course modules ‘Modern Societies II: Global Social Problems and Dynamics of Resistance’ and ‘Media, Culture, and Society’.
2024 - Present
Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge
My research fellowship is focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and influencership in Nigeria, as a case study to explore the adoption and usage of AI in the creative labour economy in Africa.
2024 - 2025
Teaching Fellow, Cambridge Digital Humanities, UK
Designed course content, including the reading materials, and taught a tripartite module on tools and methods for sourcing a research idea online, considering social media research ethical complexities, and conducting social media ethnography.