Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American writer and lawyer and the author of The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa.

She has written essays, reviews and articles for publications like The Atlantic,[2] The American Prospect, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, [3]The New Republic, The New York Times,[4] and The Washington Post.

In 2014, she published The Bright Continent, a book about African development and technology.

She has written that "institutional failures accelerate the process of experimentation and problem solving.

[7] Her mother, Olufunmilayo Falusi Olopade, is a cancer researcher at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2005 "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, where she is also on the board.