Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin

Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin is an assistant professor of Black Geographies in the Departments of Geography and Planning and Gender Studies at Queen’s University. She is a feminist scholar who is interested in African urban futures and Black futurity. She does urban ethnography work concerning issues of gender, spirituality, spatial exclusion and financial inclusion. She also has a research focus on popular culture, both on the continent and in the diaspora, that explores issues of subjectivity and belonging as well as the use of Afrofuturism and Afropolitan Imagineering in geographic projects that address the politics of difference.