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]

Early life and 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.^[5]

Career

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 for 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

Publications

• 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]