Identity politics,race relations,elites and cultural politics,spatial politics and social change
Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian-born first BlackRhodes 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]
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 was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in 2024. He is the author of How to Become a Nigeria Big Man in Africa:Subalternity,Elites,and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria (2024);Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria:Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (2014);Nation as Grand Narrative:The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016);and Authority Stealing:Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Nigeria (2012). He is the editor and co-editor of many books,including Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic:Governance,Political Economy,and Party Politics 1999–2023 (2023);Everyday State and Democracy in Africa:Ethnographic Encounters (2022);Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021);The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa:Beyond the Margins (2017);Writers and Social Thought in Africa (2016);and Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria:Critical Interpretations (2013).[citation needed]
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