Africana Studies Presents: Wale Adebanwi

Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the African Studies Centre and Fellow of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He is also an associate member of the Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations and was the immediate past Director of the African Studies Centre (2017-2020). Before Oxford, he taught at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the University of California-Davis, USA. He is a political scientist and anthropologist, with doctoral degrees in both disciplines from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Cambridge University, UK. He is the author of Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria and co-editor of The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa.