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Chief Adebayo Ogunleye

Historian and author
Convener
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Founder profile
Founding status
Founder
Current office
Convener
Areas of interest
Traditional governance, Yoruba history, civic education
Chief Adebayo Ogunleye is a historian from Ibadan whose work traces the political institutions of the old Oyo Empire and what they can teach modern civic life.

Professional background

Chief Ogunleye spent three decades teaching West African history before turning to writing full time. His books on the Oyo Mesi and the checks it placed on the Alaafin are widely read in Yoruba studies circles.

He serves on several community heritage boards in Oyo State.

Contribution to YPRM

He convened the first gatherings that became YPRM and drafted the movement’s founding statement of values.

In their words
A people who forget how they governed themselves will always be governed by someone else.
Chief Adebayo Ogunleye
The founders

The people who started it.

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