Kennedy Ekezie
Nigerian entrepreneur and philosopher
Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph (born 11 June 1998) is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and current chief executive officer of Kippa.2
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Born Jun 11, 1998.1
About
In November 2023, Ekezie was listed on the 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 list (North America) in the Finance category.
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Early life and education
Ekezie, originally from Ehime Mbano in Imo State, was born in Lagos where he lived for 8 years with his family before his parents relocated to Calabar after they secured jobs there. In 2017, Ekezie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honours in philosophy from the University of Calabar and subsequently won a Yenching Scholarship in 2018 to study for a master's degree in Economics and Management at Peking University. He also holds a diploma in Leading Change from the University of Cambridge.
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Career
- Date not recordedFounded Kippa5
In 2014, at age 16 while studying, Ekezie founded Calabar Youths Council For Women's Rights; an organization he founded to promote women's rights after he discovered that more than 8,000 women are victims of female genital mutilation in Nigeria.
In 2021, he co-founded Kippa. Prior to that, he also worked at ByteDance while on a Yenching Scholarship at Peking University in China.
Ekezie has been credited as part of the team that led TikTok into Africa.
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Personal life
- CitizenshipNigeria7
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataKennedy Ekezie on Wikidata
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- 8Wikimedia CommonsKennedy Ekezie photo by Benjamin Ojukwu a.k.a Ojmayana, CC BY-SA 4.0