Bisi kayode fayemi biography

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (born 11 June 1963) is a Nigerian-British feminist activist, policy advocate, social change philanthropy practitioner and writer.
John Olukayode Fayemi CON ((); born 9 February 1965) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ekiti State from 2018 to 2022.
Mrs Bisi Adeleye - Fayemi is a gender and development specialist, social entrepreneur, policy advocate, writer, business woman, wife and mother.

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FEATURES: Bisi Fayemi @ 50: First Lady, One Of A Kind

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi and his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi during her 50th birthday celebration of in Ado-Ekiti.

Erelu Bisi Fayemi turned 50 back in June 2013. But it was in her character that she pointedly deferred any celebration of the milestone until much later in further deference to the memory of Ekiti State’s Deputy Governor, Mrs. Funmi Olayinka, who passed away in April, as Mrs. Bisi Fayemi explained to me when I saw her with her husband on the occasion of a lecture being given by Professor Wale Adebanwi at the Oxford University, UK in May.

The marking of the 50th birthday was week-long last week in her Ekiti State with activities that bespoke a kind heart, a compassionate lady, a woman-rights champion, and an intellectual in her own right. I write in tribute to this amazing lady of exemplary attributes.

Although I cannot claim to know Erelu Bisi Fayemi and/or her husband, Dr. Kayode Fayemi (JKF), in a ‘close family’ sense, I have yet known and followed the activities (indeed, activism) and accompl

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Kayode Fayemi

Nigerian politician (born 1965)

John Olukayode FayemiCON ((Listen^ⓘ); born 9 February 1965) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ekiti State from 2018 to 2022.^[1]^[2] He previously served in office between 2010 and 2014 before losing re-election to Ayodele Fayose.^[3] He was also the Minister of Solid Minerals Development in President Muhammadu Buhari's cabinet from 11 November 2015 to 30 May 2018, when he resigned to contest for a second term as Governor of Ekiti State.^[4] He is the pioneer president of the Forum of Regions of Africa (FORAF) since 9 September 2022.^[5]

Early life

John Olukayode Folorunso Fayemi was born in Ibadan on 9 February 1965 to an Ekiti parentage from Isan-Ekiti in Oye Local Government of Ekiti State.^[6]

Education

Fayemi had his primary education at ICC Primary School, Agodi, Ibadan, Oyo State between 1970 and 1975 and attended Christ's School Ado Ekiti from 1975 to 1980. He later went on to receive degrees in history, politics and international

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Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

Bisi Adeleye Fayemi (born 11 June 1963) is a Nigerian-Britishfeminist activist, writer and policy advocate. She was first lady of Ekiti State, Nigeria as wife of Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as first lady from 2010 to 2014 during her husband's first term in office. In 2001, she co-founded the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), the first Pan-African grant-making organisation. She serves as a UN Women Nigeria Senior Advisor, and was appointed as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College, University of London in 2017.

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As women, regardless of our class, geographical location or educational status, we should be aware that we do not operate in a vacuum. We function within a context of patriarchal norms and values, which have been firmly entrenched over time, and which continue to be validated through culture, traditions and religious beliefs.

Ultimately, it is the fabric that binds us together as a community of people that will unravel, when we can no longer talk to one anoth