She is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Her current postdoctoral project examines elegiac poetry in Ghanaian contemporary poetry networks. Her general research and teaching practices critically examine how language affects literary practice and generates meaning through lived experience. She works through texts in multiple languages across East and West Africa.

Her research interests are in African popular cultural practices, poetry, hip-hop, digital literature, multilingualism and fieldwork practices. Her PhD examined the affordances of hip-hop and spoken word poetry in Tanzania, exploring how Tanzania shape their identities through the aesthetics of popular culture.

She is also a creative writer with works such as the poetry chapbook Learning to Say My Name (2023, APBF) and the children’s book Black and Bold Queens: Women in Ghana's History (2023, Yellow Mango Press).

She will stay in Cologne until August 2025.

Contact via e-mail: Dr. Nikitta Dede Adjirakor