Dayo Olopade

Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American writer and lawyer and the author of The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.

Dayo Olopade
BornTemidayo Folasade Olopade
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale College
Yale School of Management
Yale Law School
GenreNon-fiction
Literary movementNew America
Notable worksThe Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.

Life

She was born and raised in Chicago to academic parents. She attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and St. Paul's School before going to Yale College. She earned graduate degrees from Yale School of Management and Yale Law School, where she was a Knight Law and Media Scholar at the Yale Information Society Project, and a Yale World Fellow.[1]

In 2009, she was named as a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She has written essays, reviews and articles for publications like The Atlantic,[2] The American Prospect, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, [3]The New Republic, The New York Times,[4] and The Washington Post.

In 2014, she published The Bright Continent, a book about African development and technology. She has written that "institutional failures accelerate the process of experimentation and problem solving."[5] She has been a critic of governments across Africa, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.[6]

She was advisor to Andela, Safara, and Cancer IQ.[7]

Family

Her mother, Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade, is a cancer researcher at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2005 "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she is also on the board.[8] In 2016, she married Walter Lamberson.[9]

Works
  • The bright continent : breaking rules and making change in modern Africa, Boston ; New York : Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. ISBN 9780547678313, OCLC 951136131[10][11][12]

References
  1. "Dayo Olopade | Yale Greenberg World Fellows". worldfellows.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  2. Olopade, Dayo. "Dayo Olopade". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  3. "Dayo Olopade – Foreign Policy". Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  4. Olopade, Dayo (2017-04-12). "Opinion | Stop Treating Liberia's President Like a Hero. She's a Human". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  5. Olopade, Dayo (2014-04-16). "Africa's Tech Edge". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  6. Olopade, Dayo (April 12, 2017). "Stop Treating Liberia's President Like a Hero. She's a Human". The New York Times.
  7. "Dayo Olopade". lannan.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  8. "Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade Joins MacArthur Board". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  9. "Dayo Olopade, Walter Lamberson". The New York Times. 2016-09-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  10. "The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa" (September/October 2014). 2014-08-05. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  11. "A New Look At 'The Bright Continent'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  12. Polgreen, Lydia (2014-04-11). "'The Bright Continent,' by Dayo Olopade". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.