Adebayo Williams

Prof. Adebayo Williams is a Nigerian scholar, journalist and novelist. Originally he was a specialist in the field of African literature but he has developed a wide interest in political developments in Africa in general, and Nigeria in particular. At the ASC, he worked on a project entitled 'Intellectual Formations and the Closed State: Rethinking the State-Civil Society Problematic in Africa'. He made two trips to Nigeria to monitor the presidential elections and to watch the handing-over ceremony in Nigeria after sixteen years of military dictatorship. He published three papers and gave several lectures and seminars.

Fellowship year: 
1999
Prof. Dr. A. (Adebayo) Williams
Former visiting fellow