Princess Olufemi-Kayode | |
Birth Place: | Nigeria |
Known For: | Child rights activism |
Executive Director |
Princess Olufemi-Kayode (also known as Modupe Olufemi-Kayode)[1] is a Nigerian criminal justice psychologist and prominent child rights activist.[2] Olufemi-Kayode became an Ashoka fellow in 2007. She is the Executive Director of Media Concern for Women and Children Initiative (MEDIACON), a non profit organisation (NGO) listed by the UNDP[3] which works with child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation.
Princess is a child abuse survivor, who was abused several times by her close associates.[1] In 1979, she wrote two poems about her child abuse experience.[4]
She worked as a columnist in The Punch newspaper, where she managed a column called "Princess Column". She is an international speaker and lover of children. In 2000, she founded Media Concern Initiative for Women and Children, a non-governmental organisation for women and children that focuses in the field of sexual violence prevention and crisis response in Nigeria and Africa.[5] She has appeared in various radio talk shows and television programmes.[6] She became an Ashoka fellow in 2007.[7]