Rotimi Fani-Kayode was born in 1955, in Lagos, Nigeria, moving to Brighton, England in 1966, fleeing the violent events leading to the Nigerian-Biafran Civil War. Following his studies at Brighton College, Seabright College and Millfield School, he graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts and Photography from the Pratt Institute in New York. In 1988, Fani-Kayode, along with a number of other photographers, co-founded the Association of Black Photographers (now known as Autograph ABP) and became their first chair and was also an active member of the Black Audio Film Collective.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/rotimi-fanikayode