Writings
Ten Selected Books
I Remember: The Autobiography of LADIPO ADAMOLEKUN
2016
Ibadan: Safari Books
Politics and Administration
in Nigeria.
1986
London, Hutchinson University Library for Africa;
Ibadan, Spectrum Books.
Reprinted in 1986, 1993,
1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004
Essays on Public Management,
Gender and Sub-National Governments.
2016
Ibadan: Caligata Publishing Company Ltd.
(Guest Editor)
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
Special Issue on “Federalism in Nigeria: Toward federal democracy” Fall 1991, Volume 21, Number 4.
Was among the 20 “most influential articles” published in the Golden Anniversary Collection (Publius, Vol. 50, 1, 2020) to commemorate the 50th year of federalism research since Publius first appeared.
Politics, Bureaucracy and Development in Africa
2006
Ibadan: Spectrum Books
Public Administration A Nigerian and Comparative Perspective
1983
London, Longman
Reprinted in 1986.
Whither Nigeria?
Directions for future development.
2012
Ibadan: Caligata Publishing Company Ltd.
Sekou Toure’s
Guinea
1976
London, Methuen
Reissued 2023, London Routledge Publishers
Public Administration
in Africa
1999: (ed.)
Main Issues and Selected Country Studies. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Paper Back edition in 2002 by Spectrum Books, Ibadan (reprinted in 2005); Ibadan: Evans Publishers, 2nd edition, 2011.
Re-Orienting Public Management in Africa: Selected Issues and Some Country Experiences.
2005
Economic Research Working Paper No. 79.
Tunis: African Development Banks
Twenty Selected Journal Articles
2010: “The governors and the governed. Towards improved accountability for achieving good development performance,” Africa Review (New Delhi), Vol. 2, No. 2, 105-138
2005: “Nigerian federation at the crossroads: the way forward,” Publius, The Journal of Federalism, 35, 3, 383-405
2002: “Africa’s evolving career civil service systems: three challenges – state continuity, efficient service delivery and accountability” in International Review of Administrative Sciences, 68, 3, 373-387. (The paper on which the article is based was presented at IASIA”s 2001 annual Conference and it won the first Pierre de Celles Award, named in honour of a former president of IASIA). (Also available in French).
1998. “Réflexions sur les relations entre politique et administration en Afrique,” Revue française d’administration publique, 88, 611-622.
1991: “Decentralization Policies: Problems and Perspectives,” Asian Journal of Public Administration, 13, 1, 67-92.
1991: (with John Kincaid), “The Federal Solution: Assessment and Prognosis for Nigeria and Africa,” Publius, The Journal of Federalism, 21, 4, 173-188.
1990: “Institutional Perspectives on Africa’s Development Crisis,” International Journal of Public Sector Management, 3, 2, 5-16.
1988: “Political Leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Giants to Dwarfs,” International Political Science Review, 9, 2, 95-106. (Also available in French – « Le leadership politique en Afrique noire: les nains après les géants »)
1985: “Relationship between Political and Career Officials in US Federal Government: An Outsider’s Viewpoint,” Indian Journal of Public Administration, New Delhi, XXXI, 2, 225-238.
1984: “The Idea of Local Government as a Third Tier of Government Revisited,” Quarterly Journal of Administration, Ife, 18, 3&4, 113-138.
1984: “The Nigerian Ombudsman Experience,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, L, 3, 227-229. (Also available in French)
1981: “The Use of Social Science in Policy Analysis and Development in Nigeria,” Quarterly Journal of Administration, Ife, XV, 2, 163-181.
1979: “Introduction: A Tentative Profile of (Nigerian) Higher Civil Servants,” Quarterly Journal of Administration, Ife, XIII, 3&4, 191-194.
1978: (with O. M. Laleye), « Administration et développement au niveau local: l’expérience du Nigeria, 1960-1978, » Revue française d”administration publique, Paris, 571-596.
1976: “Towards Development-Oriented Bureaucracies in Africa,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, XLII, 3, 257-265. (Also available in French)
1974: “Accountability and Control Measures in Public Bureaucracies: A Comparative Analysis of Anglophone and Francophone Africa,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, L, 4, 307-321. Reprinted in an abridged form in Development Digest, XV, 4 (October 1977), 3-14. (Also available in French, Cahiers africains d”administration publique, 16, 1976).
1974: ‘’Some Aspects of the Study of Bureaucracy in New States,” The Greenhill Journal of Administration (Accra), 1, 3, 52 – 64.
1971: “Bureaucrats and the Senegalese Political Process,” The Journal of Modern African Studies, Cambridge, IX, 4, 543-559.
1969: “Politics and Administration in West Africa: The Guinean Model,” Journal of Administration Overseas, London, VIII, 4, 235-242. Reprinted in French in Ghana, Legon, June 1975.