Professor oyeronke oyewumi biography

Nigerian American sociologist and academic

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (born 10 November 1957) is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.

She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science^[1] at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Oyěwùmí is the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award, which recognizes and honours individuals who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African studies combined with service to the Africanist community.^[3]

In her 1997 monograph, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, she offers a postcolonial feminist critique of Western dominance in African studies.^[4] The book won the American Sociological Association's 1998 Distinguished Book Award in t