Matthew H. Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in theU.S.A. He earned his Master’s Degree in the same department, focusing primarily on postcolonial literary studies, though also studying linguistics and the Yoruba language. The title of his Master’s thesisis: Peripheral Destinations: The Chronotope of the Road as Postcolonial Space-Time in Soyinka and Serote. In 2009, Matthew won a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, as well as the Ebrahim Hussein fellowship,to study the Nigerian popular film industry. He will spend 10 months in Nigeria, 1 month in South Africa, and 1 month in London collecting information about the Nigerian film industry and its international distribution and consumption. Here at the University of Ibadan, Matthew is working with Dr. Duro Adeleke in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages and Dr. Hyginus Ekwuazi in theDepartment of Theater Arts. He and his wife, Sarah, will be at UI until mid December, 2010. Matthew enjoys practicing Yoruba, as well as eating iyan with egusi. Sarah’s favorite Nigerian food is moin-moin.
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