Education
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.
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Oyeleye Oyediran
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Career
A former Fulbright scholar, and a native of Ogbomosho in Oyo State, he has edited books like, Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule, 1966-1979 and He has remained a faculty at the Center for International Studies, at the East Carolina University. and Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, (1999–2000). He has served as Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Lagos 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 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.
Membership
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 District of Columbia
