Akinyemi at 80: Some notes

Penultimate Tuesday, January 4, 2022, Professor Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, former director-general of the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs Penultimate Tuesday, January 4, 2022, Professor Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi, former director-general of the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs , former Nigeria’s Minister for External Affairs and holder of innumerable medals and positions of academic, diplomatic and professional excellence flying on a high altitude like the eagle that he...

Firstly, the Henry Kissinger factor in the analysis of Akinyemi’s diplomatic practice. Henry Kissinger, a soldier and political scientist, was a former U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under President Richard Nixon. He held forth at the peak of the Cold War. His contemporary on the Soviet divide was Andrei Gromkyo. Both diplomats performed exceedingly under the ideological climate they found themselves and pursuant to the foreign policy objectives of their various countries.

Whatever psychological benefits may be envisaged by the comparison of these two outstanding diplomats should be jettisoned. It smacks of inferiority complex, to say the least. Kissinger is Kissinger; Akinyemi is Akinyemi. Akinyemi should be analysed on his own merits: his contribution to governance, scholarship, diplomacy and Nigerian foreign policy.

Happy birthday Sir

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