Prof. Segun Gbadegesin will be celebrating his 70th  birthday  with the launch of his book titled “All The Way: Serving With Conscience” on Monday, December 21, 2015 at Nigerian Institute of International Affairs – 13 Kofo Abayomi Street Victoria Island, Lagos.

Segun Gbadegesin was part of Radio Kudirat, NADECO, Egbe Omo Yoruba and has written a weekly column on the backpage of The Nation since the newspaper was established.

The book is a memoir of his professional life and activism in support of social and political transformation.  The book tells the story of Prof. Segun Gbadegesin’s formative life events and activism through the prism of Nigerian history and politics

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who is also Chairman of the event will lead an inter-generational  panel conversation with Chude Jideonwo, Omojuwa, Yemi Adamolekun and Prof. Gbadegesin himself, moderated Adebola Williams.

About Prof. Segun Gbadegesin

Prof. Segun Gbadegesin was born in Okeho, in the Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State in 1945. He read Philosophy at University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), graduating with first class honors. Prof. Gbadegesin was deeply involved in pro-democracy activism from his base in the United States during the period of military dictatorship in Nigeria.  Through his various leadership roles in diaspora organizations, he lived and breathed for political change, in service to the ideals of democracy in Nigeria.

All the Way: Serving with Conscience is a memoir of the author’s professional life and activism in support of social and political transformation.  The book tells the story of Prof. Segun Gbadegesin’s formative life events and activism through the prism of Nigerian history and politics.  It is an illustrative history of growing up in the late forties and fifties in Nigeria and coming of age during the fight for Nigerian independence.

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