Education 

Doctor of Philosophy (candidate), African History with designated emphasis in African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Davis. 

Master of Arts, African History, University of California, Davis. 

Master of Research (with distinction), History of Africa and the African Diaspora, University of Chichester. 

Bachelor of Science (with honors), Political Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University. 

Selected publications 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, (editor) The Future of Democracy in Africa: Voices from Leading African Think Tanks, (Lagos: Kachifo, 2025). 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, “Cyber History: Homespun Historians, Ethnonationalism, and Recasting Yorùbá Oral Traditions in the Age of Social Media,” History in Africa, Volume 50, May 2023, pages 155–181: DOI. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, “Odù Ifá in Transition: Contemplating Boundary Mechanisms in Discursive and Critical Appreciation of the Ifá Corpus,” Journal of Religion in Africa, Volume 52, Issue 1, 2022, pages 195–219: DOI. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, “Africa Shall Stretch Her Hands Unto God: Ethiopianism as a Pan-African Religious Freedom Movement (1880–1940),”  Journal of Church and State, Volume 64, Issue 1, Winter 2022, pages 42–67: DOI. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, Review of Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria by Olufemi Vaughan, in African Studies Review: DOI. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, Review of Pan-Africanism: A History by Hakim Adi, in Africa Historical Review: DOI. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, “Africa does not need China’s ‘Debt-Trap’ Belt and Road Initiative to Develop,” The International Affairs Review (George Washington University), October 2021. 

ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba, “How a Population of 4.2 Billion Could Impact Africa by 2100: The Possible Economic, Demographic, and Geopolitical Outcomes,” SAIS Review of International Affairs (Johns Hopkins University), 24 September 2019. 

Selected awards and fellowships 

2025 The Huntington Library: Exchange Fellowship at the University of Birmingham. 

2025 Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University: Humane Studies Fellowship (summer research). 

2024 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library: Short-Term Fellowship Award, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 

2024 Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University: Melville J. Herskovits Library Research Grant. 

2024 The Bancroft Library at the University of California: Bancroft Library Summer Study Award, Berkeley. 

2024  American Society for Legal History: Student Research Colloquium travel support. 

2024 Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives: Lynn E. May Jr. Study Grant. 

2023 Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Silas Palmer Fellowship. 

2022 Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University: Michael & Andrea Leven Fellowship (summer award for early doctoral research). 

2021 Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University: Humane Studies Fellowship (publication grant). 

2025 Professors for the Future Fellowship Program and Award, University of California, Davis, Office of Graduate. 

2025 History Department, University of California, Davis: Departmental Winter Research Travel Award. 

2025   College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis: Graduate Research Award. 

2024 Office of Graduate Studies, University of California, Davis: Michael G. Lee and Patricia Spears Lee Family Award. 

2024 Office of Graduate Studies: 2024/2025 Continuing Student Fellowships. 

2024 History Department, University of California, Davis: Departmental Summer Research Award. 

2024 Shields Library, University of California: Graduate Student Library Prize. 

2024 History Department, University of California, Davis: Departmental Spring Conference Travel Award. 

2023 History Department, University of California, Davis: Emile Scholz Prize for most outstanding second-year graduate student research paper in history. 

2023 College of Letters and Science, University of California, Davis: Dean Fellowship (summer research grant). 

2022 History Department, University of California, Davis: Reed-Smith Summer Research Award. 

2022 History Department, University of California, Davis: Departmental Conference Travel Grant. 

2021 History Department, University of California, Davis: Five-Year Doctoral Fellowship.  

Research interest 

African spiritual epistemologies, Indigenous African religions, Religious movements, Postcolonial African identities, Nationalism.