Ebenezer Obadare

Ebenezer Obadare
Born
Ebenezer Babatunde Obadare
NationalityNigerian
OccupationAcademic researcher
TitleDouglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Discipline
  • International Relations
  • Sociology
  • African Studies
Sub-disciplineHistory
InstitutionsCouncil on Foreign Relations
Main interestsCivil society, civic agency, and religiosity in Africa
Notable works
  • Pentecostal Republic
  • Civic Agency in Africa

Ebenezer Babatunde Obadare is a Nigerian-American academic. He is the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC. Until 2021, he was a professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Obadare is a scholar of civil society, social change, religion in politics, and international relations.