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Nigerian-born Canadian professor (1972–2019)

Pius Adebola Adesanmi (27 February 1972^[1] – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-born Canadian academic and author.

Life well spent.

Prof Pius Adebola Adesanmi was a Nigerian-born Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, satirist, and columnist.

Pius Adesanmi is a a poet and Associate Professor of English at Carleton University, where he is also Director of the Project on New African Literatures, PONAL.

The late Adesanmi was a distinguished literary scholar and teacher and a much sought-after public speaker.

Professor Adesanmi was an outstanding and highly decorated scholar.

He was the author of Naija No Dey Carry Last, a 2015 collection of satirical essays. Adesanmi died on 10 March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off.

Biography

Adesanmi was born in Isanlu, in Yagba East local government area of Kogi State, Nigeria.^[2] He earned a Bachelor of Arts in French language from the University of Ilorin in 1992, a Master's degree in French from the University of Ibadan in 1998, and a PhD in French Studies from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2002.^[3] Adesanmi was a Fellow of the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA) from 1993 to 1997, and of the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) in 1998 and 2000.^[4]

From 2002 to 2005, he was assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the