Femi Oluwole Explained

Femi Oluwole
Birth Date:17 March 1990[1]
Birth Place:Darlington, County Durham, England
Education:Yarm School
Alma Mater:University of Nottingham
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Femi Oluwole (born 17 March 1990)[2] is a British political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group Our Future Our Choice. He has appeared as a commentator and activist on British television. He has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Metro.

Early life and education

Oluwole was born in Darlington, County Durham to Nigerian parents – a surgeon father and a paediatrician mother, who both immigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1980s.[3] [4] [5] He grew up in the West Midlands but as a child lived in several different places across the country, having once attended a school in Dundee.[6] [7] He was privately educated at the Yarm School, and went on to study law and the French language at the University of Nottingham, while completing an Erasmus Programme year in France.[8]

Career

Oluwole has interned in non-governmental organisations and human rights agencies. At the age of 27 he left his traineeship and moved into his parents' loft to become a campaigner against Brexit, telling the Evening Standard that he made the decision to quit 2 months before his traineeship ended because he was "frustrated that the pro-Remain argument was not being made effectively by mainstream politicians."[9] In pursuing this, Oluwole created the social media channel Our Future Our Choice in September 2017, which, with the collaboration of Will Dry and Lara Spirit,[10] who had launched an anti-Brexit student activism movement in universities, was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018.[11] [12] The group advocated a pro-EU message from a youth standpoint.[13] He supported the People's Vote campaign for a further referendum on EU membership.[14]

Oluwole regularly appeared in the media during the process of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.[15] [16] Oluwole has written for The Independent,[17] The Guardian,[18] and the Metro,[19] and has appeared on Talkradio.[20]

In July 2019, Richard Tice, chair of the Brexit Party, threatened to sue Oluwole after he alleged that Leave.EU (an organisation Tice co-founded) was "overtly antisemitic".[21] Oluwole refused to apologise.[22] [23]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: It would be pretty difficult for me to. . Twitter . Femi Oluwole . 29 July 2022 . 29 July 2022.
  2. Web site: Femi Oluwole. 2019. Companies House. London. 9 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190610222951/https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/LXb3FYwZIxN3VGt4viSyIdh1fPE/appointments. 10 June 2019.
  3. News: Femi Oluwole interview: 'In just three years we will have a population that voted Remain'. Machell. Ben. 18 August 2018. The Times. 0140-0460. 7 June 2019.
  4. Web site: Femi Oluwole, the leader of the Europeanist movement that wants to stop Brexit. Toma. Costanza de. 4 January 2019. NuoveRadici.World. it-IT. 7 June 2019.
  5. Web site: Diversity of opinion on Brexit manifest on Birmingham's streets. McTeirnan. Anthea. 21 June 2016. The Irish Times. 8 June 2019.
  6. Web site: Femi Oluwole at Our Future Our Choice. Our Future Our Choice. 8 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190607235431/https://www.ofoc.co.uk/40. 7 June 2019.
  7. 38. Femi Oluwole; Anti-Brexit Campaigner on Nigel Farage, Chips in Brussels, Wealth v Poverty in Nigeria and a French Summer of Love. 9 October 2018. Nand. Lisa Francesca (host). Oluwole. Femi (guest). The Big Travel Podcast. 8 June 2019.
  8. Web site: Meet Femi, the campaigner and former Yarm School student who says Brexit is a disaster for the young. Brown. Mike. 11 March 2018. TeessideLive. 8 June 2019.
  9. Web site: 'Let's take back control of our futures': Young campaigner Femi Oluwole's plan to overturn Brexit. De Peyer. Robin. 17 February 2018. London Evening Standard. London. 8 June 2019.
  10. Web site: Seventy per cent of young people voted Remain—Lara Spirit is demanding they are heard. Chappell. Peter. 12 March 2019. Prospect. 8 June 2019.
  11. Web site: Why I'm taking a gap year to fight Brexit. Ktena. Natalie. 28 January 2019. BBC. 8 June 2019.
  12. Web site: 'Our Future, Our Choice': Campaign launched for young people who want Brexit stopped. Embury-Dennis. Tom. 14 February 2018. The Independent. 8 June 2019.
  13. Web site: Perspective – 'Keep the door open for us': The fight to keep the UK in the EU. 29 March 2019. France 24. 8 June 2019.
  14. Web site: Big blue anti-Brexit bus pulls into Westminster for Parliament 'take over'. Nsubuga. Jimmy. 27 November 2018. Metro. 8 June 2019.
  15. Web site: 'Nigel Farage IS racist': Femi schools Brexit Party activist. Jankowicz. Mia. 25 April 2019. The New European. 8 June 2019. 28 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190428204818/https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/femi-oluwole-debates-brexit-party-activist-1-6015344. dead.
  16. Web site: 'Stop the fake news' – former Farage adviser slammed for immigration mistruths in TV interview. Read. Jonathon. 22 April 2019. The New European. 8 June 2019. 8 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190608055048/https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/trixie-sanderson-and-femi-oluwole-on-sky-news-1-6008648. dead.
  17. Web site: Femi Oluwole. The Independent. 7 June 2019.
  18. News: The Brexit party's toxic rhetoric doesn't represent most leave voters. Oluwole. Femi. 22 May 2019. The Guardian. London. 0261-3077. 7 June 2019.
  19. Web site: Femi Oluwole. Metro. 8 June 2019.
  20. Web site: Femi Oluwole. Talkradio. 7 June 2019. 7 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190607220334/https://talkradio.co.uk/femi-oluwole. dead.
  21. Web site: The Londoner: Brexit Party chair Richard Tice warns Femi: I'll sue. 23 July 2019. London Evening Standard. 28 July 2019.
  22. Web site: Randall . Angus . Femi Oluwole: 'I won't apologise to Richard Tice' . . 5 June 2020 . 24 July 2019.
  23. Web site: Gee . Harry . Femi Oluwole, the political maverick thinking outside Brexit box . . 5 June 2020 . 5 February 2020.

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