Know Your Author - Olusegun Adeniyi #Power, Politics & Death

Hello and welcome to yet another exciting month at Discovery Shoppe, and as always, we're bringing you a short bio of our author of the month. This May 2022, we will be taking a look at Olusegun Adeniyi, author of our political book for the year, Power, Politics & Death: A front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar'Adua, who is also the second Nigerian author we are reading at Discovery Shoppe Book Club 😁. Read along with us!

You can read our last Know Your Author episode featuring Cal Newport - author of Deep Work - our book for the month of April 2022.

By Onyedikachi Nwachukwu | Discovery Shoppe Book Club

Olusegun Adeniyi

Olusegun Adeniyi (born 6 November 1965) is a Nigerian journalist, current chair of the editorial board of THISDAY newspapers who writes the weekly column, 'The Verdict', and was a former presidential spokesman to the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. Olusegun Adeniyi is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL) who has delivered speeches and lectures in several countries. He has also written several books, including 'The Last 100 Days of Abacha', 'Against The Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated in Nigeria', 'From Frying Pan to Fire: How African migrants risk everything in their futile search for a better life in Europe', and 'Naked Abuse: Sex for Grades in African Universities,' including our current read, 'Power, Politics and Death: A front-row account of Nigeria under the late President Yar'Adua.'

Adeniyi holds a first degree in International Relations from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a master's in international law and diplomacy (MILD) from the University of Lagos. He is also a 2010/2011 Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University, where he studied after serving Nigeria in the Yar'Adua's government.

He began his journalism career as a Staff Reporter with The Guardian Newspapers in December 1990. In April 1992, he left to join the now rested African Concord magazine as a Senior Staff Writer, and in September of the same year, he was appointed the magazine’s Abuja Bureau Chief with accreditation to cover the State House. Adeniyi, who joined the THISDAY newspaper in January 1999 as Deputy Editor of the Saturday newspaper, rose to become editor of the Sunday THISDAY and was appointed the editor of the THISDAY title paper in August 2005. On 30 May 2007, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua appointed him to be his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, a position he occupied until Yar’Adua’s demise on 5 May 2010. He has since written about his experience working for the deceased president, and is married with three children. To learn more about Olusegun Adeniyi, (and his seemingly endless list of accolades), you should definitely check out the links below.

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