Prof. Wale Adebanwi
Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Prof. Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations in the African Studies Centre and Associate Member of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford and Fellow of the Oxford Martin School. He is a political scientist and anthropologist. Prof. Adebanwi has two doctoral degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of Cambridge, UK.
He has published three sole authored books including Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016), Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (2014), and Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria (2012), and has edited or co-edited eight books, the latest of which is Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (Michigan University Press 2021).
Between 2015 and 2020, he was a co-editor of AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute. He was also a co-editor of Journal of Contemporary African Studies between 2011-2017.