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Oyeleye Oyediran
Nigerian political scientist
Dr. Oyeleye Oyediran is a noted Nigerian political scientist. A former Fulbright scholar, and a native of Ogbomosho in Oyo State,[1] he has edited books like, Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-1979 and Survey of Nigerian Affairs, 1973-1977 and 1978-1979.[2] He has remained a faculty at the Center for International Studies, at the East Carolina University,[3] and Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, (1999–2000).[4]
He attended Baptist Boys High School in Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State in South West Nigeria, and received his PH.D from the University of Pittsburgh.[5]
He has served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Lagos[2][6] 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 United States Institute of Peace, in Washington D.C.[4] 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 University of North Carolina
- The University of California at Los Angeles
- Duke University
- Institut de Sciences Politique in Switzerland.
- The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
- Nigerian legislative houses, which way?'. University of Ibadan Consultancy Unit, 1980.[7]
- Oyediran, O. (1979). Nigerian government and politics under military rule, 1966-79. Macmillan.[8]
- Essays on Local Government and Administration in Nigeria, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria, Project Publications, 1988.[9]
- Transition Without End : Nigerian Politics and Civil Society under Babangida, edited by Larry Diamond, Anthony Kirk-Greene and Oyeleye Oyediran, Lynne Rienner Publishers (1997) ISBN 1-55587-591-2 [10]
- 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) ISBN 2-86978-071-0 [11]
- Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-1979. Macmillan, 1979. ISBN 0-333-26898-9.[12]
- Survey of Nigerian Affairs, 1973-1977 and 1978-1979. Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in co-operation with Macmillan Nigeria Publishers, 1981. ISBN 978-2276-49-9.[13]
- Oyediran, O., & Agbaje, A. A. (Eds.). (1999). Nigeria: politics of transition and governance, 1986-1996. African Books Collective.[14]
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- Oyeleye Oyediran; Adigun Agbaje (June 1991). "Two-Partyism and Democratic Transition in Nigeria". The Journal of Modern African Studies. 29 (2). University of Cambridge Press: 213–235. doi:10.1017/S0022278X0000272X. S2CID 154729480. Retrieved December 9, 2013.