10 Things About Wale Adebanwi, First Black Professor At The University Of Oxford’s School Of Interdisciplinary Area

Wale Adebanwi is a Nigerian scholar who recently became the first black African to be appointed Rhodes Professorship at Oxford University.

Stargist.com presents you 10 things about this intellectual man.

1 Professor Wale Adebanwi is a Nigerian, born 47 years ago in 1969.

2  He holds a B.Sc in mass communication from the University of Lagos, M.Sc and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Ibadan, as well as MPhil and Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

3 Wale 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.

4 Adebanwi is an Author, editor or co-editor of 10 books,. He has also published book chapters and many articles in some of the most prestigious journals of social science and humanities scholarship. He has served as co-editor of Journal of Contemporary African Studies and is currently co-editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute.

5 The scholar has held visiting fellowships at St Anthony’s College, Oxford, and the Centre for African Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands, and a Rockefeller fellowship for Academic Writing Residency at its Bellagio Centre, Italy.

6 In 2005, he was a co-winner of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation research grant.

7 In September 2014, Adebanwi’s “amazing success” since graduating from Cambridge was acknowledged by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates who funded the scholarship with which Adebanwi studied at Cambridge.

8 He is a Fellow of the 21st century Trust (England), Claude Ake Memorial Scholar (Africa-America Institute, Washington, DC), African Youth in a Global Age Fellow (SSRC, New York) and Fellow of the Program of Ethnic and Federal Studies (University of Ibadan).

9 In January 2017, Wale Adebanwi was appointed the prestigious Rhodes Professorship in Race Relations in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

10 Adebanwi, who is at the moment a professor at the University of California, Davis, United States, will also be a Fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford, effective July 1 and the next Director of the African Studies Centre of Britain’s oldest university.

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