Nigeria & I: Getting Politics Right to Make Nigeria Work

About the Author

LADIPO ADAMOLEKUN is a Professor of Public Administration and a former Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife. For about two decades, he held senior appointments at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He has written many books and monographs and numerous academic journal articles on politics and public administration in Nigeria and Africa. His commentaries on Nigerian government and politics have been published in several Nigerian newspapers for over six decades, from his undergraduate years at the University of Ibadan to the present. His autobiography, I Remember, was published in 2016. He has won many honours and distinctions at home and abroad over the years. In December 2005, he won the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) award, officially described as the highest national prize for academic and intellectual attainment. He is retired and based in his hometown, Iju, Akure North, Nigeria.