Media Justice Fellow

Meeting

Media Justice Fellow

Ayokanmi Oyeyemi

Ayokanmi Oyeyemi

Ayokanmi Oyeyemi is a Nigerian social entrepreneur, Open-Source advocate, and Pro-LGBT+ advocate…. Till date, he is the program strategist for Wikimedia Nigeria, the official Wikimedia Foundation affiliate in Nigeria in charge of promoting Wikipedia and other sister projects. Ayokanmi has a background in medical biochemistry but his penchant for storytelling made him explore the art of photography where he documents and tells African story in pictures making him one of the highest contributors of quality images to Wikimedia commons from Nigeria; he also writes various stories and articles centered around human rights, minorities voices and LGBTQ where he shares his insight to a balance world. He attended the Write for right workshop and  Mawjuodin Queer film festiver in March 2019 at Tunis, Tunisia along with other Wikipedians from different part of the world where he engaged in contributing about queer articles on Wikipedia.

He believes that that the world will become a better place only when there is freedom of expression. Base in Lagos, Nigeria