Abdul Rasheed Na’Allah, is the vice chancellor of Kwara State University
in Nigeria He received a BA in 1988 from University of Ilorin, with a
thesis “Dadakuada: the trends in the development of Ilorin traditional
oral poetry”, subsequently published in African Notes., and in 1992
received a M.A. Literature in English from the same university. In 1999,
he received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and was subsequently professor and chair of
African Studies at Western Illinois University. He is now the vice
chancellor or Kwara State University in Nigeria.