Nimi Wariboko
· Director, African Studies CenterBoston University · International Relations
Active 1998–2025
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About
Nimi Wariboko is a professor and the Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University's Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary in Ethics, an MBA from Columbia University in Finance and Accounting, and a BSc in Economics from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. As a lively transdisciplinary thinker, Dr. Wariboko specializes in economic ethics, Christian social ethics, African social traditions, Pentecostal studies, and philosophical theology. His scholarship is characterized by rigorous interweaving of original insights from these fields, structured around five central themes: the principle of social ethics as a framework for social action and potential realization; a theology of money advocating for an inclusive global monetary system; an exploration of African cultural ethos and its emancipatory core; a pneumatological methodology of ethics for pluralistic communities; and a moral philosophy of finance emphasizing social justice, care of the soul, and counteracting fragilities in socio-economic systems.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Philosophy
- Political science
- Theology
- History
Selected publications
The Palgrave Handbook of African Social Ethics
2020-01-01 · 14 citations
book1st authorThe Society for Pentecostal Studies at 50 Years
Pneuma · 2020-12-09 · 5 citations
articleOpen access1st authorGovernance as Trauma in Nigeria:
Georgetown University Press eBooks · 2025-01-28 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingReligious Studies Whither and Why: Deeper Move into the Sacred
Religious Studies Review · 2024-03-01 · 1 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingTB Joshua scandal: the forces that shaped Nigeria’s mega pastor and made him untouchable
2024-01-19 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 13 shared
L. William Oliverio
- 3 shared
Toyin Falọla
The University of Texas at Austin
- 2 shared
Wale Adebanwi
- 2 shared
Bill Oliverio
- 1 shared
Lara Ehrlich
- 1 shared
L. William Oliverio
- 1 shared
Jacob K. Olúpònà
Harvard University Press
- 1 shared
Laura Rambikur
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