Rethinking Cultural Exchange
‘BioDun Ogundayo, associate professor of French and comparative literature, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Ogundayo, director of Africana studies and foreign language at Pitt’s Bradford campus, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to study, teach and research the oral tradition of the Mossi people in Burkina Faso. He is spending the 2022-23 academic year teaching in the Department of Anglophone Studies at the Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Ouagadougou, the capital of the West African nation.
Ogundayo says, “I will be bringing a relevant and specifically American cultural, academic and cross-cultural input and perspective to their curriculum.” He hopes to connect his Pitt-Bradford students with his new students in Burkina Faso through Zoom as well.
“We are like bridges.”