Professor Adeleke Adeeko was born in the early 1960s at Ijebu Imusin. He attended St. Mary’s Anglican Primary School, Ijebu Imusin, for his First School Leaving Certificate, and then Ijebu Ode Grammar School, Ijebu Ode, between 1970 and 1974, where he obtained the West African School Certificate. He went on to secure admission into the University of Ife and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1982. Three years later, he earned a Master of Arts from the same institution. He proceeded to study for a higher degree at the University of Florida, USA, where he attained his doctorate degree in 1991.
He taught at the University of Colorado from 1991 to 2006 and is currently teaching at Ohio University. He is a prolific author with research interest in Anglophone African Literatures, South Asian and the Caribbean. He has written many books, articles and research papers. The most notable of these include Proverbs, Textuality and Nativism in African Literature (1998) and The Slaves Rebellion: Literature, History and Orature (2005).
His philanthropic gestures have seen him help many children in the field of education. He has sponsored some of the educational programmes of the Ijebu Imusin Planning Body (IPB). He is married to Madam Taiwo and they are blessed with three children.
