Ebenezer Babatunde Obadare is a Nigerian-American academic and the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington D.C. He is a scholar specializing in civil society, social change, religion in politics, and international relations, with a particular focus on socio-political affairs in Africa.
Prior to his current role, Obadare was a professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas until 2021.