An interdisciplinary scholar, he integrates conceptual rigors of theoretical linguistics with ethnographically grounded scholarship in socio-cultural analyses to address common and habitual practices, such as the variabilities associated with the production of speech segments and the cultural constancies that evolve different responses to life’s persistent concerns. He is the author of The Symbolism and Communicative Contents of Dreadlocks in Yorubaland (2016), the editor of Body Talk and Cultural Identity in the African World (2015) and co-editor of Essays in Speech Processes: Language Production and Perception (2016).