Dele Olojede is a Nigerian Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former foreign editor of Newsday; he won the prize as a result of his highly acclaimed report on the Genocide in Rwanda. He was the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1982, he began his journalism career with National Concord newspaper in Lagos (a paper owned by the Late Moshood Abiola) and left the company in 1984.

Dele Olojede- is the ownwer of 234 Next Newspaper.

Olojede graduated with a Journalism degree from University of Lagos. In 1986, he worked on an investigative report on the imprisonment of Fela Kuti (Nigerian musician) which led to his release and the ousting of the Judge that imprisoned him. Olojede’ work on the report helped him win a $26000 scholarship from the Ford Foundation with which he used to earn a Master’s Degree from Columbia University, New York. At Columbia, he won the Henry N Taylor Award for outstanding foreign student.

In 1988, he joined Newsday (a Long-Island New York newspaper) as a summer intern and over the years ascended to the position of Newsday’ United Nations Bureau Chief and later on an African correspondent based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Olojede recently launched a Nigerian newspaper called Next.