Olusegun Soetan was born on June 27, 1980, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, in Western Nigeria. His family speaks the Yoruba language, one of the three most prominent national languages in Nigeria, and he is the second of six children. He attended elementary and secondary schools in Abeokuta, his hometown. He later attended the University of Ibadan for his bachelor’s degree in Guidance & Counselling and Master’s of Arts in Yoruba Literature. In 2009/2010, he was a visiting scholar to the then Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. After about two years, he returned to the University of Wisconsin as a graduate student, and he earned his Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature in 2019. That same year, he joined the faculty of the African Studies Program, Penn State University. Olusegun has written novels and drama books in his Yoruba language, and he is a performing poet. As an immigrant, Olusegun advocates for multilingualism and culture pluralism, having witnessed some subtle and overt forms of discrimination as a member of minority ethnicity in the United States of America. He teaches courses in African feminism, gender and women studies, and third-world cinema. He is a photographer and a budding filmmaker.