Hammed Kayode Alabi

Hammed Kayode Alabi is a nonprofit leader, poet, author, and social entrepreneur known throughout Africa for his advocacy for education, youth, and sustainable development. He describes himself as a product of grace and circumstance. He grew up in the largest floating slum in Africa “Makoko-Nigeria”, lost his mother at age 7, and watched his father struggle to find employment and this became his motivation for empowering young leaders in his community and education offered him that pathway. By the age 15, he was already teaching in a basic rural school in Lagos and later founded a nonprofit, the Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative -KLCI. With over 100 volunteers across 6 states in Nigeria, KLCI has provided life, 21st-century skills, leadership development, and career readiness training to over 6500 secondary school students in rural and underserved communities in Nigeria. He also created the teachers-in-training fellowship that leverages technology to empower 70 student-teachers in Nigeria with innovative teaching methodologies.