A lifelong learner, who believed in the power of education.
Oyewumi Adelakun believed, with extraordinary conviction, that education was the great leveller. It was a belief he carried from his earliest years to his last, and one that quietly shaped almost every important decision he ever made.
As a father, he did not spare a penny to give his children the best education he could afford. He understood the doors that education could open, and made sure his children walked through them.
His belief in education was not only for his children. Throughout his career, he kept learning, taking short courses and certifications, always reinventing himself. He was a lifelong learner long before it became a phrase.
This Foundation exists to carry that conviction forward, to support Nigerian students from low-income households who have shown brilliance and dedicated themselves to academic excellence despite their circumstances, and to remind them, as our father would have, that education is still the great leveller.