Dayo Olopade marubuciya ce ƴar asalin Najeriya mmazauniyar Amurika. Ita marubuciya ce a jaridar The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Change Change in Modern Africa. An haife ta kuma ta girma a Chicago ga iyayen ilimi. Ta halarci Makarantun Laboratory na Jami'ar Chicago da Makarantar St. Paul kafin ta tafi kwalejin Yale. Ta sami digiri na digiri daga Yale School of Management da Yale Law School, inda ta kasance Knight Law da Masanin Kafofin watsa labarai a Yale Information Society Project, kuma Yale World Fellow. A cikin 2009, an kira ta a matsayin Bernard Schwartz Fellow a Gidauniyar New America . Ta rubuta rubuce-rubuce, sake dubawa da labarai don wallafe-wallafe kamar T he Atlantic, Ra'ayin Amurka, The Guardian, Manufofin Kasashen Waje, New Republic, The New York Times, da Washington Post . A shekarar 2014, ta buga littafin ta The Bright Continent, wani littafi game da ci gaban Afirka da fasaha. Ta rubuta cewa "gazawar hukumomi na hanzarta aikin gwaji da magance matsaloli." Ta kasance mai sukar gwamnatoci a duk fadin Afirka, da tsohuwar shugabar Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.