Abimbola A. Adelakun is an assistant professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies modern African culture through the disciplinary lenses of performance, gender, religion, Africana, and Yoruba studies. Her forthcoming book, Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism, will be published by the Cambridge University Press (2021). Abimbola writes a weekly column for PUNCH Newspapers.