Ebenezer Obadare

A Country and Its Diaspora

Nigerians admire Nigerian immigrants in the diaspora, until they don’t.

What Does Africa Really Want?

The continent’s case for “global restructuring” is muddled

Bobrisky and the Academics: Exploring Trends Through a Scholarly Lens

I hear that Prof. Ebenezer Obadare is assembling leading academics from around the world to…

The God of All Things

Why a dangerous reliance on miracles matters for ethics and policy

The Unmaking of an Elite

The great tragedy of Nigerian tertiary education is the debasement of its professoriate.

The Truth About Africa’s “Debt Crisis”

Africa has a governance crisis, not a debt crisis

Kagame’s Crusade

The Rwandan President’s attempt to regulate faith-based organizations raises more questions than answers.

Uncivil Society

The standard state versus society framework for analyzing African politics is no longer fit for…

A Loud Silence

Pentecostal leaders’ avoidance of the #EndBadGovernance protests in Nigeria speaks volumes about the protests’ ethnoreligious…

The Myth of the ‘Leaderless’ African Protest

Rather than being leaderless, contemporary African protests are being steered by a leadership no one…