#  Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju 

2025-2026 Doctoral Fellow

 

 

 



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Diekara Oloruntoba-Oju is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies, with a primary field in Anthropology. Her work broadly focuses on questions of generations and youth, urbanization and spatiality, and embodiment and intimacy in West African cities. Her dissertation research draws on a multi-sited ethnography of unlike spaces of belonging in Lagos – bars, campuses, churches, and streets – to trace the myriad ways young people find alternative pathways to intimacy amidst spatial inequality and the housing crisis in Lagos.