Olusegun Adeniyi

Chairman, Editorial Board, THIS DAY Newspapers

Nigeria

Olusegun Adeniyi is a journalist, writer and a former Nigerian Presidential spokesman. Mr. Adeniyi spent the 2010-2011 academic session as a Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University where he conducted his research on factors that shape incumbent presidential election in Africa. Among his book publications are “From Frying Pan to Fire: How African Migrants Risk Everything in their Futile Search for a Better Life in Europe” and “Against the Run of Play: How an incumbent president was defeated in Nigeria.”