2014 Schedule
Interactive: March 7–11  •  Film: March 7–15  •  Music: March 11–16

Book Signing - Dayo Olopade

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Dayo Olopade will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa".

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Dayo Olopade

Journalist

The Bright Continent

Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist.

She began her career at The New Republic, where she covered the 2008 presidential primaries and general election. She covered the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency as Washington correspondent for The Root, and the second year as a reporter for The Daily Beast. She has been a Fellow at the New America Foundation, a United Nations Foundation Journalism Fellow, and a visiting scholar with the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has also appeared in print and online at The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Born and raised in Chicago, Dayo holds degrees in Literature and in African Studies from Yale University, where she is currently a Knight Law and Media Scholar.

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