On
Saturday, April 9, 2022,
Emeritus AAAS Professor Biodun Jeyifo honored the legacy and life of the late
UW-Madison Professor Teju Olaniyan and gave the keynote address titled: “Death be not Proud: For Teju and the Foundation” at a memorial celebration and the launching of the
Tejumola Olaniyan Foundation, a nonprofit foundation in Olaniyan's name that will focus on preserving and continuing strands of his contributions to higher education. Olaniyan was an internationally-recognized scholar of African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, post-colonial studies, genre studies and popular culture studies, whose distinguished body of work serves as a foundation for other scholars around the world in African and Diasporic studies.
