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Dr. Oghenevwarho G. Ojakovo is an assistant professor of music and the director of the CADSMM at 好色先生, Dominguez Hills. Before his appointment in spring 2024, Dr. Ojakovo worked at the Department of Music, the Department of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies, and the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has previously worked in Africa as an assistant lecturer at Kwara State University, Nigeria.

Dr. Ojakovo holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Alberta, Canada. He is a Killam Graduate Laureate of Canada and has won numerous awards and scholarships, including the 2020 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, the most prestigious graduate award administered by the University of Alberta. Dr. Ojakovo completed his bachelor of arts degree in music from Delta State University, Abraka and a master of arts in performing arts with a specialization in ethnomusicology from the University of Ilorin, both in Nigeria. He teaches a range of courses, including African American Music, African music in the Diaspora; Black music and the politics of identity; music and African religion (Christianity and Islam); Black music and social movements; global popular music; and an introduction to ethnomusicology.

Dr. Ojakovo鈥檚 interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of music making in Africa and African diasporic performance spaces. He is keen to explore that nexus alongside its contributions to negotiations and renegotiations of the complexities of lived experiences of Africans in the Diasporas. His doctoral dissertation, 鈥淚n the Battle for Hearts and Minds: Music in the Construction and Deconstruction of Boko Haram鈥檚 Ideologies in Northern Nigeria,鈥� explores the significance of the Islamic hymnody used by the Boko Haram Islamic movement to advance an ideology of radical Islam in northeastern Nigeria.

Dr. Ojakovo has a new project titled Religious Songs, Spirituality, and the Formation of African Immigrant Identities in the Diaspora. This project explores religious songs in relation to African/African Caribbean immigrant spirituality to unpack the connections between faith, the 鈥渃ultural cohort,鈥� constructions of 鈥渙ld鈥� and 鈥渘ew鈥� homes, and religious identity in the Diasporas. Dr. Ojakovo has authored several academic articles and is currently working on a co-edited book project based on film and decolonization for publication by Ohio University Press.