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 Nigerian-born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford where he was, until June 2021, a Professor of Race Relations, and the Director of the 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]
Wale Adebanwi graduated with a first degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, and later earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. 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]
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]
His published works include: [10]
In addition, he is the editor and co-editor of other books, including.
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 Nigerian-born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford where he was, until June 2021, a Professor of Race Relations, and the Director of the 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]
Wale Adebanwi graduated with a first degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, and later earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. 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]
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]
His published works include: [10]
In addition, he is the editor and co-editor of other books, including.