Professor Returns to Bosnia to Supervise Elections

OHIO STATE PROFESSOR RETURNS TO BOSNIA TO SUPERVISE ELECTIONS

     COLUMBUS -- An Ohio State University professor is returning
to Bosnia Nov. 14 to serve as an election supervisor for the Nov.
22-23 parliamentary elections.

     Okey Onyejekwe, (O-kee On-yeh-JEK-way) director of the
Center for African Studies, is part of an international team
supervising the first parliamentary elections since the Dayton
Peace Accord of 1995.  He also supervised the Bosnian municipal
elections held in September.

     The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the
group organizing the elections, and the U.S. State Department
selected Onyejekwe for the position.  An associate professor of
journalism and political science in the Department of African
American and African Studies, he has written position papers for
the State Department on U.S. policies in Africa and on the
process of democratization.

     Onyejekwe expects to face many of the same obstacles that he
encountered while supervising the municipal elections.  Those
problems included land mines, a heavily armed citizenry, and
voters being turned away because of missing identification and
voter registration papers. 

     Onyejekwe