2026/2027

Jacob K. Olupona, Ph.D.

Professor of African and African American Studies

Harvard University

from February to June 2027
Born in 1951 in Ute, Ondo State, Nigeria
BA in Religious Studies, University of Nigeria, MA and PhD in History of Religions, Boston University

Project

Yorùbá Thought and Culture: Insights from Ifá Divination Poetry

Publications from the Fellow Library

Olupona, Jacob K. (Cambridge, Mass, 2013)

Bonds, boundaries, and the bondage of faith : religion at the crosroads in Nigeria