Sunday Okobi with company report
A Nigerian scholar, Professor Wale Adebanwi of the College of Pennsylvania(UPENN), United States, has emerged one of many 188 students to win the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis awards.
The Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis had simply introduced winners of its 2024 prestigious awards after months of a rigorous peer overview of a protracted record of about 3,000 candidates. Out of the tons, 188 world-class students, scientists, writers, historians, artists and photographers got here prime.
Adebanwi, who made the enviable record, teaches within the Division of Political Science and the Division of Africana Research, the place he’s the present director.
Earlier than he was headhunted by UPENN, he taught on the College of California-Davis and College of Oxford the place he was the primary African ever to be appointed because the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director of the African Research Centre.
Adebanwi holds a doctorate in Political Science from the College of Ibadan and one other Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the College of Cambridge,the place he was a Invoice and Melinda Gates Scholar.
His works/books embody: ‘Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption Struggle and Democratic Politics in Put up-Army Nigerian; ‘Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Company Company’ and ‘The Nigerian Press and the Politics of That means.
He has additionally edited and co-edited a number of books with Professor Ebenezer Obadare and different students. In line with the organisers of the awards, the awardees can be given funds to assist their work.