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Femi Fani-Kayode
David Oluwafemi (meaning "the beloved of the Lord") Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode is a Nigerian politician, essayist, poet and lawyer. He was a member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was with the opposition's All Progressive Congress (APC) until June 2014 when he returned to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. Although his family lineage originates from Osun, he was born in Lagos, Nigeria, on 16 October 1960 to Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode and to Chief (Mrs) Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode. He is an Ile-Ife chieftain of Yoruba descent.
Fani-Kayode was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was appointed the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 22 June to 7 November 2006 and as the Minister of Aviation from 7 November 2006 to 29 May 2007.〔By Emmanuel Ajibulu ,("Chief Remi Fani-Kayode: The Facts and Not the Fiction" ),'ModernGhaha.com'', November 2009〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 1" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 2" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 3" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 4" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 5" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 6" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕〔("Chief Femi Fani Kayode at the Senate Ministerial Screening – Pt 7" ), ''Youtube'', June 2006〕
==Background and education==
Femi Fani-Kayode comes from a prominent Nigerian family. His great grandfather, the Rev. Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode, was one of the earliest Nigerians to be educated in England, receiving an MA from the University of Durham, after which he became an Anglican priest. His grandfather, Victor Adedapo Kayode, studied law at Cambridge University and became a lawyer and a judge. His father Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode, who was also at Cambridge was a prominent lawyer and political figure in Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s. He was Leader of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons Opposition in the Western House of Assembly from 1960 to 1963, the Hon. Minister of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and Deputy Premier of the Western Region of Nigeria from 1963 until 1966 and he successfully moved the motion for Nigeria's independence in 1958 in the Nigerian Parliament.〔Power in an Emergent African Nation" by Richard L. Sklar, (), ''Google Books'', Page 269〕〔("The Truth About the Motion for Independence" ),'AllAfrica.com'', 27 September 2010〕
Femi Fani-Kayode started his education at the age of 8 at Brighton College, Brighton in the UK after which he went to Holmewood House School in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, South-East England. He entered Harrow School in Harrow on the Hill, United Kingdom and later into Kelly College in Tavistock, UK, where he completed the rest of his public school education. In 1980 Femi Fani-Kayode went to the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies where he graduated with an LL.B law degree in 1983.〔Emmanuel Ajibulu, ("Femi Fani-Kayode- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff" ), ''Business Guide Ghana'', Monday, 7 December 2009〕 He entered Cambridge University (Pembroke College) where his grandfather (Selwyn College), his father (Downing College) and his older brother, Akinola (Downing College) had all previously read law. Victor Adedapo Kayode, Femi's grandfather, was called to the British bar (Middle Temple) in 1922 and his father, Remi Fani-Kayode, was called to the British bar (Middle Temple) in 1945.〔 After finishing from Cambridge, Femi Fani-Kayode went to the Nigerian Law School and in 1985 was called to the Nigerian Bar. In 1993, under the tutelage of Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams of Ghana, Femi Fani-Kayode became a Pentecostal Christian. He decided to go back to school to study theology at the Christian Action Faith Bible Seminary in Accra, Ghana, gaining a diploma in theology in 1995.〔
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