Ebenezer Babatunde Obadare

Ebenezer Obadare (PhD, London School of Economics; Professor of Sociology) is a civil society scholar, with particular interest in informal strategies of resistance under changing dynamics of rule. He has also researched and published extensively on religion and politics, civic engagement, and civic service and citizenship in Africa. He is author/editor of seven books, including Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (Rochester, 2016), Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa: Leadership in Tranformation (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (Springer, 2014), and Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century (James Currey, 2014). His essays have appeared in the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), African Affairs, Current History,  Politique Africaine, Journal of Civil Society, Democratization, Patterns of Prejudice, Africa Development, Critical African Studies, Development in Practice, Journal of Modern African Studies, Africa, Journal of Contemporary African Studies and Journal of Church and State, among others.