Prior to his role at UP’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, Prof Adebajo was the Director of the  at the  and was Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the . He served on  missions in South Africa, Western Sahara and Iraq, and was Director of the Africa Programme at the  in New York.
He is the author of ten books, including Building Peace in West Africa, UN Peacekeeping in Africa, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali: Afro-Arab Prophet, Pharaoh, and Pope. He is co-editor or editor of 11 books on Africa’s international relations including From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations. A graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts, US, he obtained his doctorate from Oxford University in England.