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Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, scholar, prolific author, essayist, diplomat, totally Nigerian and proud of it too, and remains optimistic that Nigeria.

Akinyemi joined the University of Ibadan where he taught for five years before he was appointed Director General of the Nigerian Institute of.

He taught as Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan and by 1975, had become the Director-General of the Nigerian.

Lagos — Professor Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, former Director-General, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs and former Minister for.

Deservedly described as one of Nigeria's most outstanding intellectuals of contemporary times, former Foreign Minister, university teacher and.

He taught as Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan and by 1975, had become the Director-General of the Nigerian..

Bolaji Akinyemi

Nigerian professor of political science

Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi (born 4 January 1942) is a Nigerian professor of political science who was Nigeria External Affairs Minister from 1985 to late 1987.^[1]^[2]^[3] He is the chairman of the National Think Tank.^[4]

Early life and education

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.^[2]

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 Ang