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Place of Birth: Nigeria
About Akin Mabogunje
- Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje is a Nigerian geographer.
- He was the first African president of the International Geographical Union.
- In 1999, he was the first African to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
- In 2017, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received the Vautrin Lud Prize.In 1968, Mabogunje wrote Urbanization in Nigeria, about urbanization and state formation.
- In the book, Mabogunje argued that the existence of specialists is not sufficient to cause urbanization.
- Mabogunje describes three "limiting conditions" which are additionally required: a surplus of food production, a small group of powerful people to control the surplus and maintain peace, and a class of traders or merchants who can provide materials to the specialists.
- He is the Chairman of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy and mentor to its founder Tunji Olaopa.
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