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Wale Adebanwi

Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania · Academics · Born 1969 · age 57

Wale Adebanwi 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.

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Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship2024

About this person

He is currently a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 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.

Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1969 · age 57