Dele Olojede

Dele Olojede Biography / Profile

Dele Olojede in 1961 in Modakeke, Ife East local government area of Osun State, Nigeria. He was the eleventh of 28 children born to his father.


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Dele Olojede Career

Olojede studied at University of Lagos and is a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He earned a master’s degree in journalism at the Columbia University nearly 30 years ago. 

During his 35-year career in newspaper media, Olojede has reported and written from more than 50 countries on four continents, covering dictators, warlords, musicians, genocides, hopeful elections, famines and historic figures, including Nelson Mandela. He was the publisher of NEXT newspapers in his native Nigeria which, for an exhilarating five years in the mid-2000s, sought to demonstrate the centrality of an incorruptible media to a democratic society beset by rapacious elites. He is currently building a platform for long-form writing about the African world.

 


Dele Olojede Personal Life

He is married to Amma Ogan, a former newspaper editor and columnist, and they have two young adult daughters.

Dele Olojede Awards

Olojede is the first African to win the Pulitzer Prize. He won the McNulty Prize in 2011 for his vision and efforts in creating NEXT. He received the 2010 prize for Ethical Business Leadership from the Global Forum for Ethics in Business. In 2009, he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Prize of Columbia University. 


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