By Ebenezer Obadare. by Ebenezer Obadare. August 6, 2014. Reading Time: 4 mins read 0. Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is missing. I mean hiding. No, he has not fled the country. He is, as it should be, in fine fettle, dispensing dollops of Biblical wisdom to his extensive flock.Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare. March 22, 2023 8:57 am (EST) This time last year, no one saw Peter Obi coming. Mentally, Nigerians were preparing for yet another general election in a series ...Beko Ransome-Kuti: Requiem for a Humanist, By Ebenezer Obadare. by Premium Times. February 10, 2016. Reading Time: 4 mins read 0. Today marks the Tenth Anniversary of Dr. Bekololari Ransome-Kuti's unexpected passing on February 10, 2006. Born in August 1940, Beko was a young-ish 66 in 2006 when the grim reaper came calling.By. Ebenezer Obadare and Damaris Parsitau. Download PDF Print Article. As the body count of victims from the Shakahola Forest mass graves has ticked up, the Kenyan public has reacted with a mix of revulsion and horror. President William Ruto's description of Pastor Paul Mackenzie, head of the Good News International Church, as "a terrible ...By Madiha Afzal. In early November, a gunman opened fire on Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, and his supporters at a rally. One person was killed, many more were injured, and Khan was struck in the leg. Although the motivation of the shooter, who was detained, remains unclear, Khan quickly blamed the government and, pointedly ...On December 10, the Financial Times published a fascinating article by Neil Munshi, dateline Maiduguri, on how honest businesses have adapted to operating in areas affected by Boko Haram.Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Ebenezer Obadare; Registered: Abstract. This paper analyses the politics of regime legitimacy through the instrumentality of religious discourse purveyed through a putative Christian 'theocratic class' surrounding the Obasanjo presidency in Nigeria. Though the emphasis is on Western Nigerian Christian discourse because of its undeniable ...Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian-born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford where he was, until June 2021, a Professor of Race Relations, and the Director of the African Studies Centre, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a Governing Board Fellow. He is currently a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.Obadare was a political reporter for The News and TEMPO magazines from 1993 to 1995, and a lecturer in international relations at the Obafemi Awolowo University from 1995 to 2001. His primary areas of interest are civil society and the state, and religion and politics in Africa.Together with Ebenezer Obadare, I edited Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa (Routledge 2018). More recently, I have examined Christianity and LGBT/queer activism in African contexts.This engaging collection of essays brings distinguished scholars of political economy together to explore the changing faces of economic liberalism within the U.S.-led postwar international order.This book explores the interconnections between Christianity, sexuality and citizenship in sub-Saharan Africa, chronicling the ways in which citizenship in the region has undergone profound changes in recent decades as a result of growing interaction between Christianity and politics, the impact of the HIV epidemic, debates about women's reproductive rights, and the growing visibility of ...31 May 2023 ... Increasingly one of my favorite writers - Ebenezer Obadare. cfr.org. Tinubu's Turn. Up against the wall, Tinubu will need his famed political ...Ebenezer Obadare of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses economic and political developments in Africa, on the International Horizons podcast.30 May 2022 ... Ebenezer Obadare of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses economic and political developments in Africa, on the International Horizons ...The West African leaders are also likely to push for the release of Mr. Bazoum, said Ebenezer Obadare, a senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Many in Niamey have said they do not want Mr. Bazoum back in power. Omar Salifou, a music industry representative, stood guard at a traffic circle there on …These informative and well-researched studies look at the evolution of one of the world's first subregional security mechanisms, ECOMOG, the ceasefire-monitoring group of the Economic Community of West African States.Ebenezer Obadare (PhD, LSE) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He is author and editor of several books, including Humor, Silence and Civil Society in Nigeria (2016),The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (2014), Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21 st Century (2014), Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Africa: Leadership in Transformation (2016 ...— Ebenezer Obadare, author of Pentecostal Republic ‘Informative, engaging, and unsettling, Beyond Belief is an in-depth exploration of global Pentecostalism in lively, accessible prose.’ — Chrissy Stroop, journalist, commentator and senior researcher on the Postsecular Conflicts ProjectEbenezer is a resident at 2813 Winterbrook Driv, Lawrence, KS 66047-3249. Cynthia Dunn and Oluwakemi A Obadare are also linked to this address. Records show that Ebenezer can be contacted at (785) 856-1049 (Knology of Kansas, Inc), (785) 312-4638 (Southwestern BellKnology of Kansas, Inc).Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Ebenezer Obadare, senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in the US, was wary of getting carried away about improvements in Nigerian higher education, pointing to ongoing problems such as a strike by professors that is now into its ninth month.Ebenezer Obadare. Content by this author: The Real Meaning of Niger's Coup · Snapshot · Nigeria Is Boiling · Snapshot. Get the Magazine. Save up to 55%. on ...by Ebenezer Obadare (Editor), Wale Adebanwi (Editor) View More | Editorial Reviews. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration 176. by Ebenezer Obadare (Editor), Wale Adebanwi (Editor) View More | Editorial Reviews. Paperback ...Jan 16, 2022 · Professor Ebenezer Obadare. 16th January, 2022. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has announced the appointment of Professor Ebenezer Obadare. He is now its Douglas Dillion Senior Fellow for Africa Studies on its David Rockefeller Studies Programme. Obadare, according to CFR, ”will research and write on US relations with Africa and ... Ebenezer Obadare 1100 Kenyans Will Not Save Haiti Jendayi E. Frazer Why African Nations Support U.S. Anti-Racism Protesters Over the past year, the military and the State Security Service (SSS ...Nov 3, 2020 · Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria. African Arguments. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 8699 238 3; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78699 237 6). 2018, 214 pp. Writing in this magazine earlier this year, the Russian foreign policy thinker Alexander Lukin accused successive U.S. presidents of “forgetting the promises made by Western leaders to Mikhail Gorbachev after the unification of Germany -- most notably that they would not expand NATO eastward.”. Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ...Ebenezer Obadare. Contemporary Sociology 2013 42: 6, 865-866 Download Citation. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download.Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Before joining CFR, he was professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence…Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare. June 7, 2023 9:02 am (EST) Three complementary things happened when Nigeria returned to democracy in May 1999. First, the ascendance of Olusegun Obasanjo as ...Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >By Ebenezer Obadare. Nigeria's February 2023 general election should have been a triumph of democracy. For the first time since the country transitioned from military to civilian rule in 1999, no former army generals appeared on the presidential ballot. Nigeria had already achieved the all-important milestone of a peaceful transfer of power ...The Process Is Working. Risa Brooks, Jim Golby, and Heidi Urben (" Crisis of Command ," May/June 2021) level serious charges against the U.S. military's leadership, contending that its influence has grown to the point where "presidents worry about military opposition to their policies and must reckon with an institution that selectively ...This seems to be born out of a realization that things aren’t what they used to be,” said Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare March 13, 2023 Africa in Transition United States The Violent Far-Right Terrorist Threat to American Law Enforcement In addition to minority communities and those on ...Symposium on Pastoral Power, Clerical State. Ebenezer Obadare's Pentecostal Power, Clerical State charts the changing nature of political theological power in postcolonial Nigeria.In tracing the shift in authority from who he calls the "Man of Letters" to the "Man of God" Obadare reveals how the fallout from postcolonial rule and governmental corruption opened up a power vaccum in ...Ebenezer Obadare1,2 Affiliations: 1Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, United States of America 2Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, South Africa Corresponding author: Ebenezer Obadare, [email protected] Dates: Received: 21 June 2016 Accepted: 29 Aug. 2016 Published: 31 Oct. 2016 How to cite this ...Niger's coup, which saw President Mohamed Bazoum replaced by a junta led by General Abdourahmane Tchiani, was the latest in a series of military assaults on constitutionally elected governments in West Africa. The sixth in just the past two years, it shares many of the features of previous military takeovers in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea ...Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Nigeria's General Election, With Ebenezer Obadare . James Lindsay Council on Foreign Relations May 23, 2023Olufemi Taiwo, Ebenezer Obadare, Akin Adesokan, Wale Adebanwi&Tejumola Olaniyan. By this author. Synagogue Building Collapse: Why T.B. Joshua Should Be ...Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state-society relations during the Fourth Republic.Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the results of Nigeria's presidential election and their consequences. Mentioned on the Podcast Africa in Transition, CFR.org Ebenezer Obadare, "A Chance to Consoli…29 Ara 2021 ... Ebenezer Obadare, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas, is the author/editor of numerous works on civil society and civic ...Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations as part of ...Download Citation | Editors' Introduction | Editors' Introduction - Volume 57 Issue 2 - Ebenezer Obadare, Ian Taylor | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGateMichelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare January 30, 2023 12:54 pm (EST) A marked disjuncture between the consolidation of democratic forms and the affirmation of civil liberties is one of the many...Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare January 17, 2023 10:52 am (EST) This time last year, Peter Obi was just one of several politicians gunning for the presidential ticket of the …Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria 1st Edition is written by Ebenezer Obadare and published by Zed Books. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Pentecostal Republic are 9781786992390, 1786992396 and the print ISBNs are 9781786992376, 178699237X. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource.La réponse du continent a été "relativement discrète", écrit Ebenezer Obadare, le Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow pour les études africaines au Council on Foreign Relations, basé aux États-Unis.Aug 23, 2023 · After such a strongly worded speech, Obadare added, Tinubu probably “felt compelled to put his money where his mouth is.” The moment marks a milestone for intra-African geopolitics, analysts say. The Pastor as Sexual Object, By Ebenezer Obadare. In terms of his authority, the modern-day Pentecostal pastor is a different beast…. He is a widely sought after existential micromanager: a blend of spiritual guide, financial coach…and as we are beginning to see from a stream of media reports from across the continent, centre of an erotic ...Nigeria at Fifty: The Nation in Narration by Ebenezer Obadare, Wale Adebanwi (Paperback, 2012). Nigeria Africas most populous and biggest democracy ...Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations as part of ...Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Through the lens of Christian-Muslim struggles for supremacy, Ebenezer Obadare charts the turbulent course of democracy in the Nigerian Fourth Republic, exploring the key role religion has played in ordering society. He argues the rise of Pentecostalism is a force focused on appropriating state power, transforming the dynamics of the country ...Ebenezer Obadare Sociology at University of Kansas 4.0 (11) Experiences. Sociology University of Kansas. Reviews. Overall Rating. 4.0 (11) Anonymous 10/22/2019. Ebenezer is, by far, the most exceptional professor I have ever encountered during my time at KU. His profound enthusiasm for his subject matter is truly inspiring, and he possesses an ...Pentecostal republic: religion and the struggle for state power in , Ebenezer Obadare's Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria characterizes religion as an almost indistinguishable part of politics in Nigeria. Throughout the book, Obadare persuasively argues that the ascendance of Pentecostalism coincides ...Ebenezer Obadare is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, in the US, and fellow of the Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. His latest book is Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria (Zed, 2018).Hammett and Ebenezer Obadare respectively). The book has great strengths, especially in its attempt to cover as many geo- graphical areas and issues as possible, and it makes a profound e ff ort ...Ebenezer Obadare’s Pentecostal Power, Clerical State charts the changing nature of political theological power in postcolonial Nigeria. In tracing the shift in authority from who he calls the “Man of Letters” to the “Man of God” Obadare reveals how the fallout from postcolonial rule and governmental corruption opened up a power vaccum ...Ebenezer Obadare, senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in the US, was wary of getting carried away about improvements in Nigerian higher education, pointing to ongoing problems such as a strike by professors that is now into its ninth month.Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare. November 7, 2022 1:57 pm (EST) It is far from surprising that the just concluded Brazilian presidential election attracted more than the usual attention from ...Ebenezer Obadare ([email protected]) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. His latest book is Pentecostal republic: Religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria (Zed Books, London, 2018).Ebenezer Obadare is a Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relation (CFR). Before joining the CFR, he was a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of Professional Studies Center for Global Affairs, and a fellow at University of South ...Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria. African Arguments. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 8699 238 3; pb …Ebenezer Obadare. Sept. 28, 2023 5:55 pm ET. Listen. (2 min) Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot Interviews Bjorn Lomborg. Images: AP/EPA Composite: Mark Kelly. None of the African heads of state ... Showing 12 distinct works. sort by. Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria. by. Ebenezer Obadare, Alcinda Honwana (Series Editor), Alex de Waal (Series Editor), Richard Dowden (Series Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions.Nov 29, 2019 · THE BIAFRAN WAR AND POSTCOLONIAL HUMANITARIANISM - The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering. By Lasse Heerten. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv + 398. $30.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108515092). - Volume 60 Issue 3 Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >1 May 2023 ... Ebenezer Obadare is a senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Current History contributing editor. eobadare@ ...Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts track political and security developments across sub-Saharan Africa. Most weekdays. Url. Email Address. View all newsletters >Ebenezer Obadare, a scholar of Nigeria, is professor of sociology at the University of Kansas. He is co-editor of Journal of Modern African Studies. Website. Culture. 09.18.2018.Ebenezer Obadare. View editor publications. You can also search for this editor in PubMed Google Scholar. Wale Adebanwi. View editor publications. You can also search for this editor in PubMed Google Scholar. Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM) 6236 ...May 15, 2023 · By Ebenezer Obadare. Nigeria’s February 2023 general election should have been a triumph of democracy. For the first time since the country transitioned from military to civilian rule in 1999, no former army generals appeared on the presidential ballot. Nigeria had already achieved the all-important milestone of a peaceful transfer of power ... The second material is the well-informed analysis on the electoral outcome by Professor Ebenezer Obadare, a Fellow of Council of Foreign Relations in Washington DC. Professor Obadare's article was ...Air Power in the Persian Gulf. /*-->*/ ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH, JR., is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Browse all articles written by Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr. for Foreign Affairs.The condemnation came in a Feb. 6 blog post by Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council. He is also a senior fellow at the New York University School of ...Nov 1, 2020 · Ebenezer Obadare, Pentecostal Republic: religion and the struggle for state power in Nigeria. African Arguments. London: Zed Books (hb £70 – 978 1 8699 238 3; pb £16.99 – 978 1 78699 237 6 ... 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. Through the lens of Christian-Muslim struggles for supremacy, Ebenezer Obadare charts the turbulent course of democracy in the Nigerian Fourth Republic, exploring the key role religion has played in ordering society. He argues the rise of Pentecostalism is a force focused on appropriating state power, transforming the dynamics of the country ...Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts , Pentecostal Republic. By Ebenezer Obadare. London: Zed Books, 20, Ebenezer Obadare is Professor of Sociology at the Universit, Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts, Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare. June 23, 2022 10:43 am (EST) On Tuesday, Jul, A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yew. Reconstructing Nations and States, Summer 199, University of Kansas, USA Ebenezer Obadare (PhD, LSE) is Professor of Socio, Apr 26, 2022 · Ebenezer Obadare, Douglas Dillon senior fellow, Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian -born first Black Rhode, Niger’s coup, which saw President Mohamed Bazoum replaced, Such ‘threat’ heralded Christians’ responses documented by Ebeneze, Wale Adebanwi (born 1969) is a Nigerian -born first Black , Ebenezer Obadare is Associate Professor of Sociology , Ebenezer Obadare, a senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council, Michelle Gavin, Ebenezer Obadare, and other experts , Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare. June 14, 2023 10:19 am (EST) It, Jun 8, 2023 · EBENEZER OBADARE, Senior Fellow, in addition to b, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that “the United.