I am a Lecturer of French language and Francophone literatures and cultures with 18 years of teaching experience at university level. I currently hold a C1 NRF rating and I have published extensively on Postcolonial African literatures and cultures especially from Anglophone and Francophone regions. My research interests are in Comparative Literatures, Queer and Gender Studies as well as Postcolonial African Cultural Studies I have been the Assistant Editor of the South African Journal of African Languages since October 2019 and French Book Review Editor at the Canadian Journal of African Studies. I serve in the Editorial Boards of Nomina Africana: Journal of African Onomastics, the Journal of Literary Studies, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies as well as the Canadian Journal of African Studies. I also serve in the Editorial Board of the Governing Intimacies in the Global South Book Series at Manchester University Press. I was co-convenor of the Queer African Studies Association of the African Studies Association (US) between 2020 and 2022. I have taught diverse courses in French and Francophone Literatures, Translation into English, Commentary of unseen literary texts, West/North/Southern African Literatures. I have also supervised 31 Honours dissertations and five Masters dissertations.