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Olojede, Dele
1961–
Journalist
As foreign correspondent, bureau chief, and editor at Newsday, Dele Olojede's reports from the frontlines of the world's conflicts appeared in thousands of newspapers across the nation and beyond.
Ten years after the horrific genocide in Rwanda, Olojede returned to that small African nation.
Dele olojede biography of rory
His Newsday special report on the war's aftermath won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, making Olojede the first African journalist to win the profession's most prestigious award.
Inspired by Nigerian Authors
Born on January 24, 1961, in the West Nigerian university town of Ife, Dele Olojede was the 12th of 29 children in a polygamous family.
In 2006 he told Nicholas Asego of the Sunday Standard that he had always aspired to a career in journalism: "You had to know what you wanted to be and work towards it. By the time I was in high school I was certain of what I was going to be." As a boy Olojede wrote poetry in both English and his nat