James Tar Tsaaior

James Tar TSAAIOR is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mass Media and Writing in the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic (formerly Pan-African) University, Lagos, Nigeria where he teaches creative writing, media/cultural studies and postcolonial writing. He is also the Director, Academic Planning of the University and editor, Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. In 2010 - 2011, he was a visiting Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies,...See more

James Tar TSAAIOR is Professor and Chair of the Department of Mass Media and Writing in the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic (formerly Pan-African) University, Lagos, Nigeria where he teaches creative writing, media/cultural studies and postcolonial writing. He is also the Director, Academic Planning of the University and editor, Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. In 2010 - 2011, he was a visiting Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a participant in the International Faculty Programme, University of Navarre's IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. He was also a visiting scholar, Centre for African American Studies, Princeton University, USA in 2014. His recent publications include: African Literature and the Politics of Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), and Politics of the Postcolonial Text: Africa and Its Diasporas (LimCom Europa, 2010). In addition he has published over fifty chapters in books and articles in local and international peer-reviewed journals. See less