Akin Mabogunje

Akinlawon Ladipo "Akin" Mabogunje (18 October 1931 – 4 August 2022)[1][2] was a Nigerian geographer.

[4] In 1999, he was the first African to be elected as a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences.

[5] In 2017, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[6] and received the Vautrin Lud Prize.

Mabogunje describes three "limiting conditions" which are additionally required: a surplus of food production, a small group of powerful people to control the surplus and maintain peace, and a class of traders or merchants who can provide materials to the specialists.

[3] He was the Chairman of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy and mentor to its founder Tunji Olaopa.