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.
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