Wale Adebanwi

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 MPhil and Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.[1]

Adebanwi worked as a freelance reporter, writer, journalist and editor for many newspapers and magazines before he joined the University of Ibadan, Department of Political Science as a lecturer and researcher.[2] He was later appointed as 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.

His published works include:[3]

• Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of Rochester Press, 2016)
• Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• Authority Stealing: Anti-corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria (Carolina Academic Press, 2012)

In addition, he is the editor and co-editor of other books, including.

• The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins (James Currey Publishers, 2017)
• Writers and Social Thought in Africa (Routledge, 2016)
• (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
• (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
• (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration (Routledge, 2012)
• (co-edited with Ebenezer Obadare) Encountering the Nigerian State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).