Paul Otoo is an aspiring literary scholar and a committed researcher who is dedicated to advancing knowledge in English Literature. He obtained a B.A English and Religion & Human Values from the University of Cape Coast, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from the University of Education, Winneba and an MPhil English (Literature) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His research spans African literature as well as literature from other regions. He gives special attention to childhood representations in literary texts, childhood trauma, war narratives, subaltern studies and postcolonial studies.  He is currently working on a project that seeks to decentralize the postcolonial term “subaltern” to include the African child and also examine, through a textual analysis of selected African texts, how the child subverts the notion that “the subaltern cannot speak”.