Wale Adebanwi
Appearance
Wale Adewiwi | |
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Born | Adewale Adebanwi 1969 |
Nationality | Nigerian |
Occupation | University professor |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, University of Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social Anthropology, Political Science |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
Main interests | Identity politics, race relations, elites and cultural politics, spatial politics and social change |
Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a
African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a Governing Board Fellow.[1][2][3] He is currently a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[4] Adebanwi's research focuses on a range of topics in the areas of social change, nationalism and ethnicity, race relations, identity politics, elites and cultural politics, democratic process, newspaper press and spatial politics in Africa.[1]
Education background
Wale Adebanwi graduated with a first degree in
Political Science from the University of Ibadan. He also has an MPhil. and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.[4][5][6]
Career
Adebanwi worked as a freelance reporter, writer, journalist and editor for many newspapers and magazines before he joined the University of Ibadan's Department of Political Science as a lecturer and researcher.[7] He was later appointed as an assistant professor in the African American and African Studies Department of the University of California, Davis, USA. He became a full professor at UC Davis in 2016.[8]
Adebanwi is the co-editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.[9]
Works
His published works include:[10]
- Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press, 2016)
- Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
- Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria (Carolina Academic Press, 2012)
In addition, he is the editor and co-editor of other books, including.
- The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins (James Currey Publishers, 2017)
- Writers and Social Thought in Africa (Routledge, 2016)
- (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
- (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
- (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration (Routledge, 2012)
- (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Awards
- Rhodes Professorship in Race Relations awarded by Oxford University to Faculty of African and Interdisciplinary Area Studies.[11]
References
- ^ a b "Professor Wale Adebanwi". Oxford Martin School. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "PROF. WALE ADEBANWI: I Wish I Were Gifted But I've Got Good Luck". ThisDay Live. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ "First Black African To Be Appointed Rhodes Professor | Wale Adebanwi". Nigerian Monitor. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Wale Adebanwi | Africana Studies". africana.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Naijamotherland. "Wale Adebanwi: Meet The Nigerian Appointed As First Black African Rhodes Professor At Oxford University". Naija Motherland. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ "Wale Adebanwi | Africana Studies". africana.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
- ^ Bellanaija (14 January 2017). "President Buhari Hails Wale Adebanwi on his Appointment as Rhodes Professor at Oxford University". Bella naija.com. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ "Wale Adebanwi". UC Davis. Archived from the original on 26 September 2016.
- ^ "African Studies Workshop Featuring Wale Adebanwi". africa.harvard.edu. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
- ^ Nigeriannation. "Wale Adebanwi: Meet The Nigerian Appointed As First Black African Rhodes Professor At Oxford University". Nageriannation.news. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
- ^ "Nigerian scholar named Rhodes Professor at Oxford University". www.premiumtimesng.com. Premium Times. 10 January 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2023.