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Faculty Accomplishments

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Olabode Festus Omojola

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Omojola, B. (2025) Guest Scholar and Panelist: "West African Art Music Festival." New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. February 12-14, 2025.

Omojola, B. (2025) Speaker: "Post-Colonial Choral Music in Nigeria: The Politics and Poetics of Interculturality." University of Würzburg, Germany. February 7, 2025 (Zoom presentation).

Omojola, B. (2024) Panelist: "The Soul of Nigeria: A Tribute to Onyeka Onwenu." African Studies Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, December 12, 2024.

Omojola, B. 2023. Director: African Art Music Conversations Series at Mount Holyoke: A Lecture-Recital. The Inaugural edition was held on October 14, 2023, featuring Ishaya Yarison (composer) and Miracle Amah (soprano). Larry Schipull was the piano accompanist.

Omojola, B. 2023. Panel Chair and organizer: “African Art Music: Autonomy, Pan-Africanism, and Cultural Patriotism.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “African Pianism, Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Nationalism: A Study of the Music of Halim El-Dabh.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: “Pitch Organization and Narratology in Post-Colonial African Opera: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” The African Operatic Voice Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Public Lecture: “Opera as Political Narrative: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.” Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria, August 4, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. Keynote Speaker: “Musical Emblems of the African Postcolony: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Decoloniality.” International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, University of Ghana, Accra, July 13-19, 2023.

Omojola, B. 2023. “Tributes to Bode Omojola: Paradigms and Encounters in African Musicology.” MUSON Center, Lagos, Nigeria, July 22. Organized by Bode Omojola’s colleagues and former students.

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