User:Sewedo

Introduction: Joseph Sewedo Akoro was born on Friday, July 27 1987 in Ikoyi, Lagos state in Nigeria. He was born to the family of Late Chief Owen Vinuyon Akoro (June 28 1933- December 23 2013) a renowned and successful public administrator in Lagos state. Chief O.V. Akoro was a Commissioner of the Lagos State Service Commission under the administration of Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa.

He is from a polygamous home but grew in a monogamous setting. He is the penultimate child of both parent and has only one younger brother (Mauton Olamipo Akoro).

Sewedo (as popularly known in his family) is a human rights activist, very passionate about the lives of people especially young people and other marginalised community. He has a track record in an inclusive advocacy of the rights of people on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 2006, Sewedo and other concerned young people worked together to establish an organisation (registered as The Initiative for Equal Rights). Sewedo led the organisation since the age of 19. On the 30th August 2012, Sewedo resigned from his position as the Executive Director of the organisations in quest to purse other ambition in life.

Sewedo is a graduate of Politics and International Relation from Lead City University situated in Ibadan, Oyo state (South west) Nigeria. He is learnt French at the Institute etudes franciase pour etudiants entrange- an affiliate institute to the University of Aix-Marseille situated in Aix en provence (South-east) France.

Although Sewedo has always worked as a consultant on health and human rights programming, he only established a consulting group after his vacation from TIER. The group is called JSA Consulting Group (www.jsaconsultinggroup.org). Sewedo is a blogger among other things and his writings can be found at www.sewedoakoro.blogsport.com.

If you wish to follow sewedo on twitter. His twitter handle is @sewedo_akoro.

www.sewedoakoro.blogspot.com