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Adebayo Adedeji Quotes

1930–2018 Nigeria

Adebayo Adedeji (21 December 1930 – 25 April 2018) was a Nigerian economist and academic. A full-fledged Professor at the age of 36 years, he was Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Economic Development & Reconstruction from 1971 to 1975.

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If you are conscious that you are not qualified, maybe you will work hard enough to justify our confidence.

I came to ECA to foster regional cooperation and integration, not to be an undertaker of the corpse of defunct ones.

I believe that the country must draw necessary lessons from its experience and deliberately build itself into a strong nation exploiting fully its diverse talents and culture.

I don’t know what linkages and connections one can establish, but one thing was clear. Not only was I the only child, my mother was the only child.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adebayo Adedeji (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.