Wale Adebanwi

Wale Adebanwi, a Guggenheim fellow, is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. He is the Director of the Center for Africana Studies at UPenn and a Senior Associate at the African Studies Center, Oxford University, UK, where he was the first Black Rhodes Chair in Race Relations. Adebanwi is the author and (co-)editor of numerous publications, including How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria (Indiana University Press, 2024) and Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters (Ohio University Press, 2022).