About Dayo

Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist.

She is working on a book about technology, creativity and development in Africa.

Dayo Olopade Headshot 1She began her career at The New Republic, where she covered the 2008 presidential primaries and general election. She covered the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency as Washington correspondent for The Root, and the second year as a reporter for  The Daily Beast. She has been a Fellow at the New America Foundation, a United Nations Foundation Journalism Fellow, and a visiting scholar with the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has also appeared in print and online at The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Nation, and The Washington Post. She blogs for the New York Times at Latitude.

Born and raised in Chicago, Dayo holds degrees in Literature and in African Studies from Yale University, where she is currently a Knight Law and Media Scholar.

You can follow Dayo here, or on Twitter. The book is here. Email her here.

One thought on “About Dayo”

  1. Hi Dayo,

    I just wondered, has anyone ever told you that your name has a meaning in Japanese? As you may know, Japanese has at least six forms of the verb “is”, ranging from the very polite “de gozaimasu” all the way down to the basic, informal “da”, which is what you use when talking to friends or family.

    Meanwhile, “yo” is an emphatic, roughly equivalent to an exclamation point. So when reading your work, I often think to myself (I live in Tokyo) “So dayo!”, which translates roughly to “Yeah, that’s the way it is!”

    Anyway, what a great name for a journalist. Keep it up, I love your stuff.

    Tom Donahue

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