Wale Adebanwi wins prestigious Guggenheim Awards
Nigerian journalist-turned scholar, Professor Wale Adebanwi of the University of Pennsylvania has emerged as one of the 188 scholars of the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2024 Awards.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships in any subject of study and any kind of artistic expression to exceptional persons under the most liberal circumstances.
The Foundation announced winners of its 2024 prestigious awards after months of a rigorous peer review of a long list of about 3,000 candidates out of which188 world-class scholars, scientists, writers, historians, artists and photographers emerged.
Nigeria’s Adebanwi who emerged as one of the scholars teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Africana Studies where he is the current Director.
Before he was headhunted by UPENN, he taught at the University of California-Davis and University of Oxford where he was the first African ever to be appointed as the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director of the African Studies Centre.
Adebanwi holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Ibadan and another Ph.D in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge where he was a Bill and Melinda Gates Scholar.
Adebanwi was a freelance reporter, writer, journalist and editor for many newspapers and magazines before he joined the University of Ibadan’s Department of Political Science as a lecturer and researcher.
His books include “Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria,” “Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency” and “The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning.”
He has edited and co-edited several books.
Credit: PM News
