Dr.Oyeleye Oyediran is a noted Nigerian

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. A former Fulbright scholar, and a native of Ogbomosho in

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, he has edited books like, ''Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-1979'' and ''Survey of Nigerian Affairs, 1973-1977 and 1978-1979''. He has remained a faculty at the Center for International Studies, at the East Carolina University, and Senior Fellow at the

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, (1999–2000).

Early life and education

He attended Baptist Boys High School in

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, the capital of

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in South West Nigeria, and received his PH.D from the

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Career

He has served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the

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and was a lecturer at the

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. 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 United States Institute for Peace, in Washington D.C.Former Senior Fellows - United States Institute for Peace
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''. He was also the first holder of the ''Distinguished River Endowed Chair'' at East Carolina University. He has been a visiting lecturer at various institutions, including: *The

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*The

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* Duke University * Institut de Sciences Politique in Switzerland. * The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Publications

* ''Nigerian legislative houses, which way?'. University of Ibadan Consultancy Unit, 1980. *Oyediran, O. (1979). ''Nigerian government and politics under military rule, 1966-79''. Macmillan. *''Essays on Local Government and Administration in Nigeria'', Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria, Project Publications, 1988. *''Transition Without End : Nigerian Politics and Civil Society under Babangida'', edited by Larry Diamond, Anthony Kirk-Greene and Oyeleye Oyediran, Lynne Rienner Publishers (1997) *''Nigeria : Politics of Transition and Governance, 1986-1996'', edited by Oyeleye Oyediran and Adigun A.B. Agbaje. Dakar, Senegal, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (c1999) * ''Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-1979''. Macmillan, 1979. . *''Survey of Nigerian Affairs, 1973-1977 and 1978-1979''. Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in co-operation with Macmillan Nigeria Publishers, 1981. . *Oyediran, O., & Agbaje, A. A. (Eds.). (1999). ''Nigeria: politics of transition and governance, 1986-1996''. African Books Collective.

References

External links

United States Institute for Peace
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