Role Professor Spouse Rowena Akinyemi (m. 1970) | Nationality Nigerian Name Bolaji Akinyemi | |
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Profession Professor of political science Website www.profbolajiakinyemi.com Education | ||
Prof bolaji akinyemi berates s african leaders for not doing enough 22 04 15
Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi (born 4 January 1942) is a Nigerian professor of political science who was his country's External Affairs Minister from 1985 to late 1987. He is chairman of the National Think Tank.
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- Prof bolaji akinyemi berates s african leaders for not doing enough 22 04 15
- PROF BOLAJI AKINYEMI AT 7O
- Early life academic career and personal life
- Later life
- References
PROF BOLAJI AKINYEMI AT 7O
Early life, academic career, and personal life
Akinyemi was born in Ilesa, in what is now Osun State. He attended Igbobi College in Yaba from 1955 until 1959, Christ's School Ado Ekiti from 1960 to 1961, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, from 1962 to 1964, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, US, 1964 to 1966, and Trinity College, Oxford, England, from 1966 until 1969.
He was a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and at the Diplomacy Training Programme, University of Nairobi, Kenya, both in 1977. He was Regents Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, US in 1979, Professor of Political Science at the University of Lagos, from 1983 until 1985, and Visiting Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge, England in 1984.
Akinyemi was Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) from 1975 until 1983. The NIAA is an organisation focusing on Nigerian foreign policy; while he was Director-General, it was involved in promoting Nigerian-Angolan relations, among other things.
He married Rowena Jane Viley in 1970. They have one son and three daughters.
Later life
During the short-lived Third Republic of 1993, he called on the military to overthrow Ernest Shonekan's administration; Sani Abacha, Defense Minister at the time, later did so, and assumed the position of head of state. Akinyemi was later among those who opposed Abacha's regime.
In August 2007, President Umaru Yar'Adua appointed him to the newly created Electoral Reform Panel.