Maryam Owodunni

I am an international student from Nigeria who is deeply interested in language, culture, and human relationships. I currently speak Yoruba, English, and Mandarin Chinese at advanced level, French and Arabic at lower intermediate level.

My research is driven by the right to the city, how and why these rights translate differently from person to person, how relations are formed in the urban and how people negotiate their ways into the urban life especially at the ever-rising influence of neoliberalism. I am generally interested in urban development, urban transformation, and urban communities in the global South. I have growing interest in colonialism, settler colonialism and their ongoing roles and effects in present day. My prior research had been on spatial justice in contemporary urban development using the case study of Lagos, Nigeria. My current work seeks to explore human migration, diaspora groups, how these groups relate to space in the urban and how their bodies influence these relationships.