Prof. Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, the former Chief of Staff to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has resumed at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States, as a visiting scholar.
In a telephone interview with newsmen in Ilorin on Wednesday, Gambari said that he had commenced work on his memoir as part of his academic engagement at the institution.
He said that his arrival on the institution’s campus began immediately with documenting his decades of experience in diplomacy, governance and international relations.
The former Chief-of-Staff was received on arrival in the United States by Prof. Wale Adebanwi, Senior Academic and Departmental Head in the Graduate School of the university.
Gambari was appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and his term is scheduled to run from January to August 2026.
He said that the appointment, approved by the university’s School of Arts and Sciences, was expected to see the veteran diplomat contribute to scholarly discourse and advance his personal research projects, including his memoir.
Gambari, a former Minister of External Affairs and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, was also the founder of the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Abuja.
His memoir is expected to draw from his extensive career spanning academia, multilateral diplomacy and high-level public service in Nigeria and globally.
(NAN)
