Community Spotlight: Taiwo Afolabi (2024 Mentor)

Today, we highlight the work of Dr. Taiwo Afolabi, 2024 Mentor.

Dr. Afolabi is research lead to 'Ar(c)tivism and Policing', a digital archival project that centres on the potency of protest art, particularly its role in advocating for change in policing (in Nigeria), bad governance (in Bangladesh), and on an array of systemic issues such as Black Lives Matter, racism and policing (in Canada and the United States).

Dr. Afolabi and some of his students at the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre have recently published some articles that we would be delighted to share with you all:

• “Art as Resistance: A digital archive documents how protest arts address police violence”, featured in The Conversation
• “Probing Fatalistic and Deterministic Conversations in Ahmed Yerima’s Drugga and Victor Dugga’s Gidan Juju”, featured in Critical Stages/Critical Scenes
• “Future, Uncertainty and the Theatre Sector”, Canadian Theatre Review 201