Background
Adedeji, Adebayo was born on December 21, 1930 in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun, Nigeria. Came to Ethiopia, 1975. Son of Library Science and Adeola Adedeji.
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Countries in Africa continue to fall prey to civil war and the disintegration of governmental authority and social order. The contributors to this book believe that a development agenda to improve people's lives and strengthen national economies cannot be effective until Africa masters its problems of governance. They examine the complex and diverse roots of conflicts in Angola, Burundi and Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Somalia and Somaliland, and offer historical and comparative reflections. Drawing on the experiences of Northern Mali, Nigeria, the part played by NGOs in Rwanda, and the role of regional cooperation, they explore possible ways of anticipating, containing and indeed preventing new conflicts.
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Adedeji, Adebayo was born on December 21, 1930 in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun, Nigeria. Came to Ethiopia, 1975. Son of Library Science and Adeola Adedeji.
Diploma in Local Government Administration, University College, University Ibadan, 1954. Bachelor of Science in Economics, London University, 1958. Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, 1961.
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University London, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Ahmadu Bello University, 1976. Honorary Doctor of Laws, University Dallhousie, 1984.
Honorary Doctor of Laws, University Zambia, 1984. Honorary Doctor of Laws, University Calabar, 1987. Doctor of Science (honorary), Obafemi Awolowo University, 1989.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Ibadan, 1997. Doctor of Science (honorary), Ogun State University, 1998.
Senior principal secretary for revenue and budget Nigerian Civil Service, 1958-1963. Deputy director Institute Administration University Ife, 1963-1967, director Institute Administration, professor public administration, 1967-1975. Federal commissioner, minister Nigeria Ministry for Economic Development in Reconstruction, 1971-1975.
Under-secretary-general, executive secretary United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1975—1991. Director African Ctr for Development and Strategic Studies, since 1991. Member ad hoc committee of experts finance United Nations and specialized agencies, 1965.
Member expert committee on restructuring economic and special sectors United Nations, 1975. Chairman senate United Nations Institute for Namibia, 1975—1990. Trustee department economics Boston University, 1975—1985.
Chairman Western Nigerian Government Broadcasting Corporation, 1966—1967. Member Nigerian National Manpower Board, 1968—1971. Chairman Directorate of National Youth Service Corps, 1973—1975.
Founder African Center for Development and Strategic Studies, since 1991. Member panel of high level experts on restructuring United Nations, chairman development program, 1994, member advisory board African Futures project, since 1998, team leader evaluation and assessment development assistance framework, 1998, 2000, team leader on future of staff college, 00. Special envoy of president Nigeria on Zimbabwe inter-party dialogue post president election, 02.
Contributor United Nations Intellectual History Project, 2005. Special advisor on transition of Organization African Unity to African Union. Member eminent persons panel African Peer Review Mechanism.
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Author: as a factor in Africa's Development and miodernization, Africa, the Third World and the search for a New Economic Order, 1976, Africa: The Crisis of Development and the Challenge of a New Economic Order, 1977, The Political Class, the Higher Civil Service and the Challenge of Nation Building, 1981, The Deepening International Economic Crisis and its Implications for Africa, 1982. Editor: Indigenization of African Economics, 1981, Economic Crisis in Africa: African Perspectives on Development Problems and Potentials, 1985, Towards the Dawn of the Third Millenium and the Beginning of the 21st Century, 1986, Towards a Dynamic African Economic, 1989, NIgeria in the Year of its Centenary, 2014, 1989, Economics of Development in a World of Changing Ideologies and values, 1989, Preparing Africa for the Twenty-First Century: Agenda for the 1990's, 1991, The African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes for Socio-economic Recovery and Transformation: A Human-Centred and Holistic Development Paradigm, 1992, Africa Within the World: Beyond Disposession and Dependence, 1993, South Africa and Africa: Within or Apart?, 1996, Nigeria: Renewal From the Roots? The Struggle for Democratic Development, 1997, Sub-Sahara Africa and a New Strategy for International Development in the 21st Century, 1997, Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts - The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance, 1999, People-Centered Democracy in Nigeria? The Search for Alternative Systems of Governance at the Grassroots, 2000, African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century-Looking Back to Move Forward, 2004, Essays in Honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy, 2004.
Fellow Nigerian Institute Management (director 1968-1975), Nigerian Economic Society (president 1971-1972), African Association for Public Administration and Management (vice president 1971-1974, president 1975-1985), African Academy of Sciences.
Married Aderinola Ogun, August 11, 1957. Children: Adedoyin, Funso, Adekunle, Adeleke, Adeniyi, Adeola, Adefunke, Adeyinka, Adepoju, Adedipe, Adeoye.