Adebayo, Sakiru is an Assistant Professor of African Literature in the Department of English, University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa (University of Michigan Press, 2023). His new research project focuses on  "the new African diaspora" in North America. It explores the narratives of postcolonial Africans who moved to the US after the 1965 Immigration Act.