The Bright Continent

Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American journalist and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is writing a  book on the connection between disruptive technology and African development.

She 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. She currently reports for The Daily Beast and makes occasional appearances on television and radio. Her work has also appeared in print and online at The American Prospect, The Nation, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post. Her portfolio is here.

Born and raised in Chicago, Dayo holds degrees in Literature and in African Studies from Yale University, where she edited the Yale Literary Magazine and joined the first class of Yale Journalism Scholars.