In the long arc of any country’s history, many men and women hold offices and titles in public life. In Nigeria, that is the claim to fame of many such personalities. But if their value addition
Prof. Akinwande Bolaji Akinyemi is a colossus who has bestrode Nigeria’s political landscape for over four decades, since 1975, when he made national debut with his appointment as Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) Lagos.
When one thinks of a public intellectual and a diplomat extra-ordinary, the person to whom the mind races is no other than Professor Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi.