Nigeria in the World Seminar (Hybrid)

Date and Time

February 18, 2025
05:00PM - 07:00PM EST

Location

Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Hall A

“Divergent Outcomes: Nigeria & Asia Development Strategy”

Speaker:

Oyebanji Oyelaran-OyeyinkaSenior Special Advisor to the President of the African Development Bank. 

Contact:

Jacob Olupona
Olupona@fas.harvard.edu

Attendance Information:

  • This event will be held in the Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford Street, Hall A.
  • Zoom link to come.

Abstract:

Professor Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka will lecture on his new book From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence: Industrialization and Leadership in Asia's Prosperity and Nigeria's Regress, which explores development strategy in Africa and Asia through a comparative lens. Professor Oyelaran-Oyeyinka will also discuss sustainable industrialization on the African continent. Professor Jacob Olupona will moderate the dialogue.

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