Oyeleye Oyediran
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Dr.Oyeleye Oyediran is a noted Nigerian Political Scientist. He served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Lagos University and was a lecturer at the University Of Ibadan. During this period, he was Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business and Social Studies for over ten years. He was a member of the 1975 Nigerian Constitution Drafting Committee, and from October 1999-July 2000, was a senior fellow at the Institute for Peace, in Washington D.C.
A former Fulbright scholar, he is native of Kogi state. He attended Baptist Boys High School in Abeokuta, capital of Ogun, a state in the South West of Nigeria, and received his PH.D from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Oyediran was the first holder of the Distinguished River Endowed Chair at the University of North Carolina in Greenville.
He has also been a visiting lecturer at various institutions, including:
The University of North Carolina The University of California in Los Angeles Duke University Institut de Science Politique in Switzerland. The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Publications include: Transition Without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida,
"Intellectuals, Higher Education and Democracy in Nigeria: Which Way?" and "Prelude to 1985: Trends in Nigerian Government since 1960."
