Our President
Oladimeji Bolarinwa
President, Think Yorùbá First
Oladimeji Bolarinwa is the President of Think Yorùbá First (TYF), a global institution dedicated to the cultural renewal, political awakening and collective advancement of the Yorùbá people at home and in the diaspora.
Our language, our history and our values are not relics of the past. They are the foundation of our future. To think Yorùbá first is to stand as Ọmọlúàbí: with courage, with dignity, and together.
Leadership
Under his leadership, TYF is building a mass-membership organisation with zonal structures across West Africa and the world, campus chapters through Campus Connect, book reading clubs, and a political action committee for the political organisation of the Yorùbá people.
Writer and public intellectual
A writer and public intellectual, he leads Geopolitics with Oladimeji Bolarinwa under The Thought Builders Institute, where he examines West African geopolitics, Nigerian restructuring and Africa’s place in a changing world. He is also the Chief Publisher at The Yoruba Times, a news platform for Yorùbá culture, global affairs, news and diaspora affairs, and has authored several works on Yorùbá identity, federalism and African self-determination.
Background
He is a biomedical scientist by training, with years of practice in Nigeria, Germany and the United Kingdom, and an alumnus of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn, Germany.
Conviction
His conviction is simple: a people who know who they are, organise around their interests, and invest in their own institutions cannot be left behind.
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