Ibrahim Anoba

Ibrahim Anoba is a Nigerian academic and African Affairs pundit based in California. He was born and raised in the Aroloya area of Lagos Island in southwest Nigeria and spent parts of his adolescent years in his hometown of Ikorodu. He attended Ola Quranic Primary School and Eko Akete Grammar School on Lagos Island, and Oriwu Model College, Ikorodu. Ibrahim completed undergraduate studies in political science at the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, and a master of research degree at the University of Chichester, where he produced a thesis on the pan-African politics of Kwame Nkrumah. At the University of Chichester, Ibrahim was supervised by the renowned scholar of pan-Africanism, Hakim Adi. He is completing a doctoral degree in African history with a designated emphasis in African and African American studies at the University of California, Davis. His broad research interest at the doctoral level is in the social history of the Yoruba during the British colonization of the Lagos Colony and, subsequently, Nigeria.