Dayo Olopade
{{Short description|American non-fiction writer}}
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Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American writer and lawyer and the author of The 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.{{Cite web|url=https://worldfellows.yale.edu/dayo-olopade|title=Dayo Olopade {{!}} Yale Greenberg World Fellows|website=worldfellows.yale.edu|access-date=2019-03-18}}
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,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/dayo-olopade/|title=Dayo Olopade|last=Olopade|first=Dayo|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-18}} The American Prospect, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, {{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adriangalarcep/|title=Dayo Olopade – Foreign Policy|language=en|access-date=2019-03-18}}The New Republic, The New York Times,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/opinion/stop-treating-liberias-president-like-a-hero-shes-a-human.html|title=Opinion {{!}} Stop Treating Liberia's President Like a Hero. She's a Human.|last=Olopade|first=Dayo|date=2017-04-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} 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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/05/africas-tech-edge/359808/|title=Africa's Tech Edge|last=Olopade|first=Dayo|date=2014-04-16|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-18}}
She has been a critic of governments across Africa, and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/opinion/stop-treating-liberias-president-like-a-hero-shes-a-human.html|title=Stop Treating Liberia's President Like a Hero. She's a Human |first= Dayo|last= Olopade|date=April 12, 2017|work=The New York Times }}
She was advisor to Andela, Safara, and Cancer IQ.{{Cite web|url=https://lannan.georgetown.edu/Dayo-Olopade|title=Dayo Olopade|website=lannan.georgetown.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-03-18}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/press/press-releases/olufunmilayo-falusi-olopade-joins-macarthur-board/|title=Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade Joins MacArthur Board|website=www.macfound.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-18}} In 2016, she married Walter Lamberson.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/weddings/dayo-olopade-walter-lamberson.html|title=Dayo Olopade, Walter Lamberson|date=2016-09-04|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
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}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2014-08-18/bright-continent-breaking-rules-and-making-change-modern-africa|title=The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa|journal=Foreign Affairs: America and the World|date=2014-08-05|access-date=2019-03-18|issue=September/October 2014|language=en-US|issn=0015-7120}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/03/05/286225896/a-new-look-at-the-bright-continent|title=A New Look At 'The Bright Continent'|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-03-18}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/books/review/the-bright-continent-by-dayo-olopade.html|title='The Bright Continent,' by Dayo Olopade|last=Polgreen|first=Lydia|date=2014-04-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi0fNa1G4-4 Dayo Olopade: The new African narrative], TED, July 5, 2012
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