| Oliver Batali Albino | |
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1935 |
| Birth Place: | Yei, Yei River State, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (present-day South Sudan) |
| Death Place: | Augusta, Georgia, United States |
| Nationality: | South Sudanese |
| Occupation: | Politician, former civil servant |
Oliver Batali Albino (11 November 1935 – 4 January 2020) was a South Sudanese politician and civil servant.
Oliver Albino was born on 11 November 1935 in Yei, South Sudan. He was a member of the Makaraka or Adio ethnic group in the Yei – Maridi area of Central Equatoria, closely related to the Azande ethnic group.[1] He completed secondary school in Rumbek and studied at the University of Khartoum. In the early 1960s he went in exile and joined the Anya-Nya resistance movement in Kenya. In 1965 Oliver Albino became part of the Sudan African National Union (SANU) in Uganda. In the late 1960s and early 1970s he was a teacher at a secondary school in Gulu, northern Uganda.[2] During that period he wrote his first book, The Sudan: a Southern Viewpoint (Oxford University Press, 1970). Oliver Albino was also a member of the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement’s delegation to the Addis Ababa peace talks of 1972. From 1975 – 1978 he was the Minister of Housing and Public Utilities in the Southern Sudan Regional Government led by Abel Alier.[3] For only two months in 1985, April - May, Oliver Albino was the Sudanese Minister of Labour in Khartoum. [4]
In 1996 – 1997 Oliver Albino was a fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. [5] In 2006 Oliver Albino published his second book "Democracy and power in the Sudan: How Decentralization Hurts".through AuthorHouse UK in Bloomington, USA. [6] After the Independence of South Sudan in July 2011, Oliver Albino was appointed by President Salva Kiir as a member of the Council of States. [7]
On 4 January 2020, Albino died in Augusta, Georgia from heart failure.[8]