Profile: Nimi Wariboko

[Toyin Falola]

Professor Nimi Wariboko moves to Boston University

 

It is with great delight that I announce that one of our USA-Africa Dialogue members, Professor Nimi Wariboko, has been appointed the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, United States. It is one of the most prestigious endowed chairs in ethics in the United States and the most prestigious endowed chair in Boston University School of Theology. He is a distinguished scholar with global reputation in economic ethics, social ethics, and political philosophy, and Pentecostal studies. He is widely respected as one of the most original thinkers in ethics and also one of the most productive scholars in the world today. In the last one year alone, he has published three single-authored books, all of which I have had the privilege of reading. In the Rochester Series that I edit, he published with us a major book, Nigerian Pentecostalism.

In his publications, he has been able to integrate economics, continental philosophy, theology, and political theory to address the critical social issues of the twenty-first century and the economic dimensions of social transformation. In addition to working in the School of Theology, Dr. Wariboko will share his expertise and knowledge with other schools and departments in Boston University.

Dr. Wariboko will certainly bring a superior interdisciplinary breadth of knowledge to Boston University. His publications extend from ethics, economics, and philosophical theology to accounting, finance, African history, anthropology, and sociology. He is the author of 16 books, coeditor of four, and has over numerous peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He is a much-sought-after scholar for plenary addresses at major ethics, theology, and World Christianity conferences.

This appointment further confirms Wariboko’s status as an extraordinarily gifted scholar. He only started studying ethics and theology in January 2002 when he began the Master of Divinity program at Oral Roberts University, finishing it also in record time and quickly moving on to the PhD program at Princeton Theological Seminary, which he also completed with summa cum laude (distinction) in two years in October 2006. He wrote his dissertation on the ethics of the global monetary system. Between October 2006 and July 2007, he was the senior pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God, International Chapel, Brooklyn, New York. He joined Andover Newton Theological School, the oldest graduate school and seminary in the United States in July 2007 as the first Katherine B. Stuart Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. In May 2009, he was promoted to full professor.

Before joining the academy, Professor Wariboko was an investment banker in Lagos and on Wall Street. He got his MBA (Finance/Accounting, 1992) from Columbia University. Wariboko holds a 1984 first class honor degree in economics from the University of Port Harcourt. While working as banker or pastor in New York, he taught “African Civilizations” as an adjunct faculty at New York University, “Security Analysis” and “Mergers and Acquisitions” at the New York Institute of Finance, and “International Marketing” and “African Business” at the Frank G. Zarb Business School at Hofstra University, New York. In 2011, he worked as a consultant to the Central Bank of Nigeria on the financial system strategy, and in 2011 and 2012 he consulted for Nigeria’s National Security Adviser on the economic dimensions of national security and religious conflicts.

[John Mbaku]

Congratulations Professor Wariboko. This is a well-earned and well-deserved honor. Stay well!

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[House-Soremekun, Bessie]

A big congratulations to Professor Nimi Wariboko. I had the opportunity to meet him at a conference a number of years ago and am pleased to hear this great news! May God continue to pour his blessings upon Professor Wariboko and his family.

With my very best regards,

Bessie House-Soremekun

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[Moses Ebe Ochonu]

I rejoice with Professor Wariboko on a great accomplishment. A truly remarkable academic career....and an unlikely one at that, given his previous professional trajectories. Congratulations to the newly minted endowed chair. 

There is enough in the world for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed.


---Mohandas Gandhi

[Segun Ogungbemi]

Congratulations Prof. Wariboko for your new appointment.

Prof. Segun Ogungbemi

> On Aug 13, 2015, at 10:04 PM, Segun Ogungbemi <segun...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations Prof. Wariboko for you new appointment.

[Mobolaji Aluko]

Massive congratulations to Nimi....well-deserved!

Bolaji Aluko

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[Elias Bongmba]

Congratulations to Professor Wariboko for a great move. Nimi is clearly one of the most creative theologians and ethicist who addresses in a compelling manner issues that concern Africa and the human condition for out our time. His many publications invite interdisciplinary reflection and criticism with a precision and openness to otherness that is unparallelled in multidisciplinary studies.

Elias Bongmba

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[Ademola Dasylva]

Dear Professor Wariboko, this is quite cheering!  I join other friends and colleagues to congratulate you on your new appointment. Although I haven't  met you in person, I have heard so many wonderful things said, and written, about you, including your highly impressive profile under reference. 

It is interesting to also note that you had your Master of Divinity at Oral Roberts University, the same university ‎that Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), visited in 1979, and got inspired; the product of that inspiration is Redeemer's University, Ede, Nigeria (RUN), which was established twenty-six years after the visit. RUN is TOFAC  2016 host, next year July. That you graciously accepted to give a keynote address at the 2016 edition of TOFAC and foot your passage, to afford all participants across the globe  the privilege of drinking from your fountain of knowledge, to me, is not a mere coincidence but a divine design. I thank God for your life, my brother.

On behalf of the Board of TOFAC, I congratulate you, again, and wish you more laurels, increased anointing, divine health and grace  for excellence in your new engagement, while we look forward to having you next July. Go forth and keep shining.

Cheers,

Ademola O. Dasylva, Ph.D
Professor of African & Oral Literature,
Department of English,
Coordinator, Ibadan Cultural Studies Group(ICSG)
Convener & Board Chair, TOFAC (International),
Room 68, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.


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From: Toyin Falola Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 10:21 To: dialogue Reply To: usaafric...@googlegroups.com Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Profile: Nimi Wariboko

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[kenneth harrow]

congratulations to nimi. an important posting and a great position
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[Ofure Aito]

Prof Nimi Wariboko, you, indeed, earned the appointment with your outstanding work and credentials. I wish you more success and health of mind to keep driving forward. Congratulations!
Ofure

[Nimi Wariboko]

Dear Friends and Members of USA Africa Dialogue;

Thank you all for congratulating me on my appointment as the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. Your show of support, kind words, and appreciation for my scholarship have brought tremendous joy to me and reaffirmed my sense of belonging to a big and caring family of public-minded intellectuals. I have learned a lot from most of you on this forum; your gifts of sharing information, perseverance in clarifying your points of view, and critical questioning skills are blessings to me. My hope is that the ethos of this forum will one day become widespread in African countries as it would make for better policy deliberations and formulations in their public squares.

Once again, thank you and I wish you all the best.


Nimi Wariboko

On 8/13/15 6:13 PM, "Elias Bongmba" <ebon...@gmail.com> wrote: