Biography
Feyi Fawehinmi is an accountant and writer who has worked in financial services for nearly two decades. He writes about Nigerian economics, history, and policy, and his work has appeared in the BBC, Quartz Africa, and The Guardian Nigeria. He is the co-author, with Fola Fagbule, of Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation, a history of how 19th-century Nigeria shaped the modern state. At the New Cities Summit, he will present on Africa's industrialization, drawing on his work on the region's economic history.