This is Wale Adebanwi.
A 47-year-old professor at the University of California, Davis, United States, and the next Director of the African Studies Centre of Britain’s oldest university.
Wale has been appointed to the prestigious Rhodes Professorship in Race Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
The Rhodes Professor is adjudged “a scholar of international distinction with an outstanding record of research publications in the field of African (sub-Saharan) Studies and a proven track record of leadership in research and teaching.”
A prolific and versatile scholar, Adebanwi has published widely in the areas of nationalism and ethnic Studies, media and communication, corruption and politics, democracy and democratization, cultural politics, spatial politics, urban studies, and social theory and social thought.
His influential book, Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency was published by Cambridge University in 2014.
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