Pius Adesanmi is a Professor of English and African Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the internationally-acclaimed winner of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing (2010) in the non-fiction category with his book, “You’re not a Country, Africa”. A widely-cited commentator on African affairs, he has lectured widely in Universities in Africa, Europe, and North America.

Among his numerous lecture and keynote credits, Adesanmi has notably addressed audiences on African issues on such prestigious platforms as the Obafemi Awolowo Foundation's annual lecture series, the Stanford Forum for African Studies lecture series, the Vanderbilt History Series, the International Leadership Platform of the university of Johannesburg, the lecture series of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, the lecture series of the Africa Institute of South Africa, and the lecture series of the Academy of Science of South Africa.

Adesanmi served on the Diaspora Consultation series of the African Union's Agenda 2063 and has consulted for several universities across Africa on institutional capacity building. Naija No Dey Carry Last, his collection of political satires on Nigeria, will be jointly published in October by Parresia Books and Premium Times Books. He writes a nationally-syndicated weekly column for Premium Times and Sahara Reporters.

Professor Pius Adesanmi will be speaking at conference on a topic titled;
“Hating Nigeria to Greatness”.