Funmi Ogundare Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and renowned historian, Toyin Falola, have hailed a new book written by Development Economist, Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, describing it as a practical blueprint for Africa’s long-awaited industrial renaissance. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, a former Senior Special Adviser on Industrialisation to the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), recently unveiled ‘The Quest for Industrialisation: Pioneering Technology Innovation and Industrial Development in Africa’, a compilation of his selected scholarly works spanning decades of research and policy engagement. In his remarks on one of the author’s earlier works included in the volume, Obasanjo said Oyelaran-Oyeyinka lays bare a narrative spanning several decades of our developmental histor...