John Ejobowah is assistant professor in the Global Studies Program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He was trained at the University of Port-Harcourt (B. Sc. Political Science, 1986, and M. Sc. Political Science, 1989) in his home country Nigeria, and at the University of Toronto (Ph.D. Political Science, 1999).

He previously taught political science at the University of Port Harcourt (1990-1992), and served as an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Toronto (1999-2003). He has been at Wilfrid Laurier University since July 2003.

Ejobowah's work makes normative evaluation of group claims to equality and of institutional arrangements for responding to such claims. His research also focuses on alternative federal institutions for equal accommodation of groups (with special emphasis on Nigeria). He is the author of Competing Claims to Recognition in the Nigerian Public Sphere: A Liberal Argument about Justice in Plural Societies (2001), and of several journal articles and book chapters, the most recent being: "The New Political Economy of Federal Preservation: Insights from Nigerian Federal Practice," Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 43 (2), 2005: 178-193; and "Liberal Multiculturalism and the Problem of Institutional Instability," in Ethnicity and the Politics of Democratic Nation-Building in Africa, edited by Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka (2004). He has also done reviews in Journal of Modern African Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, American Journal of Islamic Social Science, International Journal, Canadian Journal of African Studies, and Africa Today.

Ejobowah lives in Mississauga within the greater Toronto area, with his wife Joyce Boma Ejobowah. He has three children.