Wale Adebanwi

**Wale Adebanwi** (an haife shi a shekara ta 1969) haifaffen-Najeriya ne, bakin fata na farko da ya zama Rhodes Farfesa a Kwalejin St Antony, Oxford inda ya kasance, har zuwa watan Yuni 2021, Farfesa a fannin Race Relations, kuma Daraktan Cibiyar Nazarin Afirka, Makarantar Nazarin Yankin Tsare-tsare da Wakilin Hukumar Mulki. A halin yanzu shi Farfesa ne na Shugaban Kasa na Penn Compact na Nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Pennsylvania. Binciken Adebanwi ya mayar da hankali ne kan batutuwa da dama da suka shafi sauyin zamantakewa, kishin kasa da kabilanci, dangantakar kabilanci, siyasar ainihi, fitattun mutane da siyasar al'adu, tsarin dimokuradiyya, jaridun jarida da siyasar sararin samaniya a Afirka.

## Rayuwar ilimi

Wale Adebanwi ya kammala karatun digiri na farko a fannin sadarwa na Mass Communication a Jami’ar Lagos, sannan ya samu digirin digirgir na M.Sc. da kuma Ph.D. a Kimiyyar Siyasa a Jami'ar Ibadan. Yana kuma da MPhil. da kuma Ph.D. a Social Anthropology daga Jami'ar Cambridge.

## Aiki
Adebanwi ya yi aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida mai zaman kansa, marubuci, kuma editan jaridu da mujallu da yawa kafin ya shiga Sashen Kimiyyar Siyasa na Jami’ar Ibadan a matsayin malami kuma mai bincike. Daga baya aka nada shi mataimakin farfesa a Sashen Nazarin Afirka da Nazarin Afirka na Jami'ar California, Davis, Amurka. Ya zama cikakken farfesa a UC Davis a 2016. Daga baya aka nada shi mataimakin farfesa a Sashen Nazarin Afirka da Nazarin Afirka na Jami'ar California, Davis, Amurka. Ya zama cikakken farfesa a UC Davis a shekarar 2016. An bai wa Adebanwi fellowship na Guggenheim a shekarar 2024. Shi ne marubucin How to Become a Nigeria Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria (2024); Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency (2014); Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (2016); da Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Nigeria (2012). Shi ne editan kuma babban editan littattafai da dama, da suka hada da Democracy and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Governance, Political Economy, and Party Politics 1999–2023 (2023); Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters (2022); Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021); The Political Economy of Everyday Life in Africa: Beyond the Margins (2017); Writers and Social Thought in Africa (2016); da Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria: Critical Interpretations (2013).

Adebanwi ya kasance ga cikin editocin *Africa: Journal of the International African Institute* da kuma*Journal of Contemporary African Studies*.

## Ayyuka
Ayyukansa da aka buga sun haɗa da:
His published works include:
* *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)

Bugu da kari, shi ne edita kuma mai tsara wasu littattafai, ciki har da:
* *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, 2016)
* (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).

## Karramawa
* Rhodes a cikin dangantakar Tsere a Makarantar Yanki na Oxford da Nazarin Duniya, Jami'ar Oxford, UK.
* Guggenheim Fellowship(2024)
* Gidauniyar MacArthur 'Bincike da Tallafin Rubutu' (2005-2006)
* Rockefeller Fellowship (Mazaunin Rubutun Ilimi, Cibiyar Bellagio, Italiya) 2013

## Manazarta