Akeem Adagbada is currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Divinity under the supervision of Professor Jörg Haustein. Akeem is an Ian Karten Honorary PhD Scholar at the Woolf Institute.
Akeem's ethnographic research focus is on the Edi Festival in Ile-Ife, Southwest Nigeria. This is an annual festival that celebrates and memorialises the heroic acts of the 12th Century Queen Moremi. His central thesis argues that Mórẹ̀mí functions as a dynamic and contested site through which actors in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ negotiate power, sacred memory, gender, heritage, and theological meaning, revealing how Yorùbá sacred history is continually remade through ritual, politics, and entangled religious identities. Akeem's PhD research will bring together the following discipline: History, 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.
