Ololade Faniyi

• African Feminism
• Critical Technology Studies
• Feminist Digital Cultures

Ololade Faniyi is an African feminist writer, practitioner, editor and Ph.D. student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. Her research explores the relationship between African feminism and critical technology studies, with a focus on reimaginations at the margins of colonial-capitalist-patriarchal modernity. Her work also interrogates Nigerian feminist digital cultures amidst encounters of the state, defensive publics and automated systems.

Ololade earned her BA in English and MA in African Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and MA in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University (BGSU), where she received the Graduate College’s Best Thesis Award for her work on the digital cultures, hashtags and networks of feminist and queer justice in #EndSARS.

Currently, she is an Imagining America Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) Co-Director, and a graduate fellow for the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence (AIAI) Network. Since 2024, she joined The Republic as sub-editor. From 2020-2024, she served as an African regional advisor for FRIDA, the young feminist fund.

Her sole and collaborative works have been published in Feminist Media Studies, Communication, Culture and Critique, Feminist Africa, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Women’s Studies in Communication. Beyond the academy, Ololade has written for public scholarship, made media comments, and been interviewed across radio, organizations, and scholarship in Nigeria and outside, where she shares insights on Nigerian gender trouble, feminist activism, African decolonial futures, and digital cultures. She has been featured in BBC (Focus on Africa), The Republic, OkayAfrica, Pulse Nigeria and New Lines Magazine.