Our Team

Policy expertise. Media reach. African focus.

Our team brings together policy expertise and media experience to advance consumer freedom across African markets.

Abisoye Michael

Abisoye Michael

Head of Programs
Nigeria

Abisoye Michael is a consumer-policy advocate and programs lead working at the front of consumer-freedom debates across African markets.

He runs FCFA's programme delivery and shapes the foundation's public policy commentary. As one of FCFA's most-quoted voices in Nigerian media, Abisoye has appeared in Punch, The Street Journal and other national outlets to argue the consumer side on tobacco harm reduction, regulatory overreach, and how new rules land on the people who actually buy and use the products being debated.

Abisoye holds a Bachelor of Sociology from Lead City University, Ibadan. He concurrently serves as a coordinator at an international policy organisation working across Africa.

Angela Halubobya

Angela Halubobya

FCFA Fellow
Zambia

Angela Halubobya is a Zambian lawyer and policy commentator working at the intersection of consumer protection, women's and children's rights, and cross-border regulation in Southern Africa.

She is an Advocate of the High Court for Zambia, practising as an Associate at Mesdames Mbalashi C. & Associates in Lusaka. Earlier in her career, Angela served as a Legal Assistant at the Higher Education Loans and Scholarship Board, giving her direct exposure to Zambian public-sector administration and regulatory policy.

Her published commentary on women's and children's rights and the social dimensions of African public policy has appeared in Rational Standard and other regional outlets.

Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Zambia and a postgraduate practice qualification from the Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE).

Chukwuemeka Ezeugo

Chukwuemeka Ezeugo

Nigerian Policy Fellow
Nigeria

Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Ezeugo is a policy advocate and civic leader writing on consumer taxation, property rights, and the rule of law across African economies.

He has more than a decade of leadership experience across African civil-society and policy organisations, with commentary on Nigeria's sugar tax and related consumer-protection issues appearing in African Liberty, Tribune Online, and other Nigerian outlets.

Emeka holds a B.Sc (Hons) in International Relations from Igbinedion University, Okada, and a Certificate in Rule of Law and Local Governance from The Hague Academy for Local Governance in the Netherlands.

Dr David Adetula

Dr David Adetula

FCFA Fellow
Nigeria

Policy expert in Health Systems, Public Health, and Healthcare Financing

Dr David Adetula is a Nigerian-trained dentist and health policy writer working on the gaps between Africa's health systems and the people they serve.

He is the Founder and Chief Policy Officer of Healthialogue, a health policy organisation he established in 2025 to spotlight policy gaps and drive evidence-based reform across African health sectors. David is also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Public Health Interest Group Africa (PHIGA) and the Co-Founder of Oral Health in Primary Health Care (OralPHC), an Africa-focused initiative advocating for the integration of oral health into primary care.

He chairs the Student-Trainee Leadership Group of the American Committee on Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health (ACCTMTH) and sits on the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Membership Committee and the Committee on Global Health's Communications, Advocacy and Policy subgroup. He has also served as a Policy Intern at the Boston Congress of Public Health and as a Judge of the Royal Commonwealth Society's Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition for two consecutive years.

His commentary on health systems, public health financing, and global health inequity has appeared in TheCable, Face2Face Africa, and Peoples Gazette Nigeria.

David holds a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from the University of Ibadan and a Bachelor of Science in Botany from Obafemi Awolowo University.

Lanre-Peter Elufisan

Lanre-Peter Elufisan

Senior Policy Analyst
Nigeria

Policy expert in Trade, Property Rights and Macroeconomic Reform

Lanre-Peter Elufisan is an African policy analyst and researcher with a focus on trade, property rights, and macroeconomic reform.

He is the Founder and Research Lead of Wave88, a UK-based research initiative developing the UK Cyber Security Trust Index, an independent benchmark of how effectively UK cybersecurity firms demonstrate credibility to enterprise buyers. He is concurrently the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Ominira Initiative, which he has led for over seven years to advance property rights, enterprise, and economic reform in Africa.

Lanre-Peter was the 2023 champion of the Atlas Network Africa Think Tank Shark Tank for his work on property-rights reform in Nigeria. He has anchored signature projects including the Freedom in Nigeria Conference (FiNCON), the Blood Gold Report, and the Driving Prosperity through Property Rights (DPPR) land-administration project in southwest Nigeria.

His commentary has appeared in Premium Times, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), Daily Post Nigeria, and Free Trade Nigeria, where he writes on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), supply chains, and intra-African payments.

Lanre-Peter holds a B.Agric from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and a Certificate in Broadcast Journalism from the National Broadcast Academy.

Linda Kavuka

Linda Kavuka

Kenyan Affairs Fellow
Kenya

Policy expert in Trade Law, Consumer Protection and East African Regulation

Linda Kavuka Kiguhi is an international trade lawyer and consumer-freedom advocate based in Nairobi. She is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, practising at the intersection of trade law, regulatory policy, and consumer protection across East Africa.

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of L.K. Advocates, a Kenyan law firm focused on international trade, regulatory policy, and economic empowerment. Linda concurrently serves as Managing Director of African Liberty, the continent-wide opinion platform, and was previously an Advisory Council Member of the Initiative for African Trade and Prosperity (IATP).

She is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and an alumnus of the Atlas Network's Smith Fellowship and Think Tank MBA. Linda has presented at policy conferences in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, and the United States, and her commentary has appeared in The Telegraph (UK), African Liberty, and other regional and international outlets.

Linda holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the University of Nairobi, a Postgraduate Diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law, and a Master of Laws (LL.M) in International Trade Law from the University of Aberdeen.

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Moronfolu Adeniyi

Harm Reduction Fellow
Nigeria

Policy expert in Drug Policy, Harm Reduction and Youth Advocacy

Moronfolu Adeniyi is a harm-reduction and drug-policy advocate with more than a decade of work on evidence-based consumer health regulation in West Africa.

His specialism is rights-based, evidence-led approaches to drug policy, harm reduction, and youth advocacy, and he is a regular speaker at international harm-reduction forums.

Moronfolu holds a B.Sc in Child Development and Family Studies from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and is a graduate of the West Africa Executive Course on Drug Policy and Human Rights at the University of Ghana Law School, sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa.

Dr Nicholas Aderinto

Dr Nicholas Aderinto

FCFA Fellow
Nigeria

Policy expert in Health, Lifestyle Regulation and Medical Workforce Reform

Dr Nicholas Aderinto is a Nigerian-trained physician and researcher writing on consumer health, lifestyle regulation, and the reform of African medical systems.

He holds an MBBS from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) and is a PhD researcher in the Neural Plasticity, Rehabilitation and Movement Dynamics Lab at the University of Utah, where his work focuses on neuromodulation for stroke recovery. Nicholas is also a Scientific Collaborator at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and has collaborated with researchers from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Geneva.

He has been recognised by Elsevier's SciVal as one of the Top 500 Researchers in Medicine in Africa, and his H-index of 19 places him among the top early-career researchers globally. Nicholas has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and three book chapters, and serves as an Academic Editor at PLOS ONE and a Topic Editor at Frontiers in Neurology.

His memberships include the American Academy of Neurology, the European Academy of Neurology (where he sits on the Stroke and Epilepsy committees), the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the World Stroke Organization, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, where he is a Foundation Member.

Nicholas writes a regular column on health policy and lifestyle regulation for international and Nigerian outlets, including The Guardian, Punch, SaharaReporters, and 1828uk. He is also the co-founder of the Emerging Researchers Network, supporting medical-student research across Africa and the Global South.

Odewale Abayomi

Odewale Abayomi

FCFA Fellow
Nigeria

Policy expert in Macroeconomics, Property Rights and Climate Policy

Odewale Abayomi is a Nigerian engineer and policy writer whose work covers monetary policy, intra-African trade, property rights, and climate.

He is a COREN-registered civil and environmental engineer with a B.Sc in Civil Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, and serves as an Assistant Lecturer in Civil Engineering at Kaduna Polytechnic.

Odewale carries African voices into global climate policy as the Focal Point for the Sustainable Land Management Thematic Group at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Youth Caucus, and as a Member of the Climate Action Working Group at the Commonwealth Association of Planners. He is also a Free Trade Fellow with the Ominira Initiative, a former African Liberty Writing Fellow, an ICFJ Climate Fellow, and a fellow of the Legislative Mentorship Initiative, a programme organised by the then-Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives.

His commentary appears regularly in Premium Times and TheCable, where he has written on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), the Central Bank of Nigeria's cashless policy, the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, and Nigeria's small-business regulatory environment.

Olufemi Ogunjobi

Olufemi Ogunjobi

Nigerian Policy Fellow
Nigeria

Olufemi Ogunjobi is a Nigerian consumer-policy advocate and journalist with twelve years of freelance commentary in The Nation newspaper, where he covers competition, consumer choice, and economic policy in West Africa.

He is a Project Manager at an international policy organisation, having previously run its Africa programs and global accelerator initiative.

His commentary has also appeared in Premium Times and on Young Voices.

Olufemi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Language Arts from Obafemi Awolowo University, an Executive Program in Non-Profit Leadership and Think Tank Management from Pan-Atlantic University (Lagos Business School), and an Executive Education Programme in Media, Communications and Public Policy from King's College London.

Olumayowa Okediran

Olumayowa Okediran

Chairman
Nigeria

Olumayowa Okediran is a consumer-policy advocate and writer working on regulatory reform across African markets. He serves as Chairman of FCFA.

He is the author of Navigate: A Prospection of Nigeria's Future to 2030 (2018). His commentary on consumer rights and African economic policy has appeared on the BBC and in Forbes, Reason, CNN, HuffPost, PanAmPost, TheCable, and Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), with his work translated into sixteen languages.

Olumayowa holds a master's degree in Humanitarian and Refugee Studies from the University of Ibadan, an undergraduate degree from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, and professional certificates in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston and Financial Journalism from the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria.

Victor Ogunjobi

Victor Ogunjobi

Policy Analyst
Nigeria

Policy expert in Data, Energy, and Sustainability Policy

Victor Ogunjobi is a Nigerian data scientist and sustainability advocate whose work spans energy systems, climate-action financing, ESG, and corporate governance in African markets.

He is an Analyst in Supply Chain, Logistics and Operations at IHS Towers, one of Africa's largest telecommunications infrastructure companies, based in Lagos. Victor previously worked as a full-time Data Scientist at Taskzap Global and as a Development Intern with Africa Policy Conversations on the Policypedia project, contributing to policy reform, public education, and sustainable-development advocacy across Africa.

He is a representative of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), a former AI Team Lead at the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Obafemi Awolowo University chapter (where his team won the Student Presidential Award at the SPE Annual Technical Conference in Texas, October 2023), and a recipient of grants from DEFNA, Linux Australia, and the AWS re:Invent All Builders Welcome program. Victor has spoken at international technology conferences including DjangoCon US 2023.

Victor holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University.