Bode Omojola

Bode Omojola is Five College Professor of Music, teaching at Mount Holyoke College and the other institutions of the Five College Consortium, namely, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Omojola obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in England, and has held the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Cologne, Germany. A former Radcliffe Institute Fellow in Musicology at Harvard University, Omojola was...See more

Bode Omojola is Five College Professor of Music, teaching at Mount Holyoke College and the other institutions of the Five College Consortium, namely, Amherst College, Hampshire College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Omojola obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in England, and has held the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Cologne, Germany. A former Radcliffe Institute Fellow in Musicology at Harvard University, Omojola was the founding National Secretary of the Musicological Society of Nigeria (now the Association of Nigerian Musicologists). He currently chairs the Five College African Studies Council of the Five College Consortium. His previous books include Yoruba Music in the Twentieth Century: Identity, Agency and Performance Practice (2012) and Nigerian Art Music (1995). See less