Tunde Onikoyi teaches African Cinema/Screen Media and Postcolonial Studies in Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State Nigeria, and had earlier taught in Kwara State University (2013-2016) and Elizade University (2016-2018) both in Nigeria. He was appointed Member of Jury, for the African International Film Festival in 2018. He is a prodigious scholar with several publications in book chapters and journals including, Journal of Pan African Studies, Black Camera, African Theatre, African Studies Review, Journal of African Cinemas, and Journal Media Communication Research, Journal of Black Culture and International Understanding. Some of his recent efforts can be found book titles such as: African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race and Space (University of Rochester, Press, 2018), edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor, “Interview With Tunde Kelani” in African Studies Review, 2020 and Regulating Nollywood in A Global Economy, (KraftBooks, Ibadan, 2020) edited by Victor Dugga.

He is currently working on book project on the Cinema of Tunde Kelani with Taiwo Afolabi as co-editor, and African Literatures for Movies. Tunde Onikoyi has been involved in film and theatre productions in Nigeria, and had written a good number of film scripts with expert-filmmakers in the continent and beyond the shores of Africa. He has been involved in setting up a film department, and curriculum development at Kwara State University, and was recently involved in setting up the Nollywood Studies Centre at Kwara State University in 2016. He currently coordinates Nollywood Research and Studies Centre, and the establishment of a film program in Adeleke University, and also a Film Review Editor and board, member of African Studies Review.