Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, D.C., USA, and Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute of Theology. Before joining CFR, Obadare was professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Obadare is the author of numerous works on civil society and the state, and religion and politics in Africa, including, most recently, Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022). He has written for Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, and other prestigious outlets. He is the editor of Journal of Modern African Studies and a contributing editor of Current History.
