Rotimi Suberu, "A Critical Assessment of Nigeria's 2007 Elections" May 21, 2007

Rotimi Suberu

"A Critical Assessment of Nigeria's 2007 Elections"

Monday, May 21st at Noon-1:30
Namaste Lounge, College Nine

Dr. Rotimi T. Suberu is a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, and Professor of Political Science at Nigeria's University of Ibadan. His research focuses on the problems of federalism, democracy, and ethnic conflict management in Nigeria.

Dr. Suberu is coeditor of Federalism and Political Restructuring in Nigeria (1998), and author of Ethnic Minority Conflicts and Governance in Nigeria (1996) and Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria (2001), among other publications. Dr. Suberu has consulted for governmental and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria, and has won fellowships and visiting positions from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, the University of Florida, and the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India. He was in Nigeria for the April 2007 elections as an observer for the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), the largest domestic Nigerian elections observation group.