Babatunde Opeyemi Salami
Babatunde Opeyemi Salami in a pale shirt against a light background.

Babatunde Opeyemi Salami

PhD Candidate in African Cultural Studies with a minor Visual Cultures and Performance Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison

African and African diaspora studies.
Literature, film and visual culture.

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A courtyard wall painted with a row of colorful masquerade figures.
Igunnuko masquerade shrine at Epetedo, Lagos.

Dissertation research

Ancestral masquerades across media.

The remediation of African ancestral masquerades across ritual performance, film and other media.

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Selected work

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Journal articleUnder review

The Fidelity of Impure Screen Media: Literary Adaptation in New Nollywood

Black Camera · 2026

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Critical media practice

Student Yoruba film project

Student Yoruba film project · Advanced Intermediate Yoruba · Spring 2026

Project context

Teaching language, literature & film.

Course experience in Yoruba, African literature, African cultural expression and African film.

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The Itinerant Lives of Ancestral Masquerades in Yoruba Societies

An ancestral screen displayed against a museum wall with exhibit labels.

Ancestral screen at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos.

A courtyard wall painted with a row of colorful masquerade figures.

Igunnuko masquerade shrine at Epetedo, Lagos.

A tall costumed figure and headpiece on a lit exhibition platform.

Gelede masquerade display at the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History, Lagos.