Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

Nigerian activist and writer

Date of Birth: 11-Jun-1963

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession: activist

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (born 11 June, 1963.) is First Lady of Ekiti State Nigeria as wife of the Ekiti State Governor 2019-2023.
She was previously Ekiti State First Lady in 2011-2015.
A British-Nigerian feminist activist, writer and policy advocate.
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.
She is Principal Partner, Amandla Consulting, and runs an online community called Abovewhispers.com.When her husband Dr.
Kayode Fayemi took office as Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria, she became actively involved in a range of policy advocacy, grassroots empowerment and social inclusion programs in Ekiti State.
She led the campaign to enact a Gender Based Violence Prohibition Law (2011) an Equal Opportunities Bill (2013) and a HIV Anti-Stigma Bill (2014).
She serves on the Executive Boards of the African Women's Development Fund, and the Global Fund for Women.
She is Chair of the Advisory Council of the Nigerian Women's Trust Fund and also serves on the Governing Council of Elizade University in Nigeria.
Adeleye-Fayemi is the author of Loud Whispers (2017), Speaking for Myself (2013), and an autobiography Speaking above a Whisper (2013).
She also co-edited Voice, Power and Soul.