Akeem Adagbada | University of Cambridge (original) (raw)

Akeem Adagbada is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Akeem’s ethnographic research focus is on the Edi Festival in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria. His study interrogates the questions of Yorùbá identity, ritual, politics, rupture and/or continuity as ways of exploring indigenous perceptions of change and their creativity more generally, with an aim of understanding how traditional Yorùbá Òrìṣà worship (“religion”) continues to intersect and interact with Christianity. Akeem’s PhD research will bring together the following discipline: Theology, Anthropology of Religion and African Religious Studies.
Before studying for his PhD at Cambridge, Akeem completed an MA in Theology and Religion Studies (Distinction) from King’s College London and won the Hanson Prize for Christian Ethics. He studied at the University of Oxford for the Bachelor of Civil Law on the Paul Hastings Scholarship. He was awarded an LLB in Law (First-Class) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Akeem is a lawyer and currently works for a law firm in the City of London.
Supervisors: Jörg Haustein

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