Tundé Adefioye

Tundé Adefioye

Researcher

tunde.adefioye@kdg.be


Tundé Adefioye is a Nigerian-American based in Belgium. Tunde helped founding the youth poetry platform Urban Woorden now Trill, works as a dramaturg (Malcolm X, (Not) My Paradise), and assisted with the research for Sanja Mitrovic's Demeter Calling and MilØ Slayer's Demonstratio. Tunde teaches Cultural Criticism and US Popular (Black) Visual Culture at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG) and contributed an epilogue chapter to the Routledge published Staging Slavery: Performances of Colonial Slavery and Race from International Perspectives (2023). In 2020, Tunde co-started a collective centering racialized young folx "Towards Braver Spaces Antwerp". This space activates and facilitates different ways of gathering and collective care. Together with Imane Benyecif, they conducted a one-year research project "Towards Braver Spaces" (2023-2024) at Sint Lucas Antwerpen (KdG).