Abimbola A. Adelakun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She researches Pentecostalism, performance, religion and spirituality, as they intersect with digital culture and teaches courses in spirituality and performance, dramatic literature, travels and African cosmopolitan identity, and modern Nigerian culture. She is the author of Powerful Devices: The Politics and Praxis of Spiritual Warfare (Rutgers 2022). She obtained a PhD from the department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, along with a doctoral portfolio and Master’s degree from African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the author of Performing Power in Nigeria: Politics, Identity, and Pentecostalism (Cambridge 2021). She has also been published in The Drama Review and Journal of World Christianity. Since 2008, Abimbola has been writing column for PUNCH Newspapers, Nigeria’s most widely-read newspaper. Her popular column critically interrogates modern Nigerian political and social culture.