Solomon Ayodele
Solomon Oluwatobi Ayodele is a Global Boy Child Advocate, Development Enthusiast, Digital Transformation Strategist, and Gender-Based Violence Expert. He has an excellent range of experience across Development Studies, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Management, Programs Management, Innovations Management, and Digital Transformation. He was nominated as one of the 10 Finalists for the Maiden Edition of the Nigerian Prize for Difference and Diversity, for his work around fostering gender equality via granular engagement of Men and Boys.
He has a degree in Political Science from the Prestigious Adekunle Ajasin University and MBA, from Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom (Edinburgh Business School). As the Executive Director of Boys’ Quarters Africa, one of the foremost boy child transformation movements in Africa, he leads a team of over 162 volunteers across 23 cities in Africa, in driving the strategic pillars of the organization – leadership, empowerment, education and advocacy.
Solomon is the convener of the Boys Too Project, a continent-wide campaign on the sexual abuse of the Boy Child. He is also the host of the yearly Exchange Project and Academy held at different Special Correctional Centre for Boys. He recently hosted Africa’s first International Boy-Child Summit, with over 2,000 viewership across the world and he is the curator of the men-themed conversation called -Guyversations.
He is the Author of Boyfession – a very short insightful and transformational e-book for Boys and those who love them. The book is a compendium of healthy confessions and is an answer to the varying questions across the sexual abuse of boys, how parents can see through, if their boys are being abused and how they can respond immediately.
Asides his role as an Innovation Manager with Standard Bank Group, he sits on the board of Creative Ideation Hub, Ore Support System and Heroes of Today’s Foundation
He was recently listed as one of the Top 50 Young Nigerians to look out for in 2021 by YNaija.