User:Sir waalii/About you

Bakari wali Abdulrahman (born Bakari Abdulrahman on 23 October 1993) is a Nigerian blogger, international public speaker, socio-economic and political commentator and social media expert. A columnist with The Punch newspaper, Leadership newspaper and Naij.com, wali's articles have appeared on CNN,[1] ThisDay newspaper amongst other platforms across the continent and beyond. His text have been repeatedly translated into several languages and he has been featured on German,[2] French,[3] Portuguese and Greek platforms. The leadership of the African Union invited him in 2014 to be part of the Africa Re-imagination Creative Hub (ARCH) to fashion an agenda for Africa 2063 project. He participated as a panelist at a side event during the 2013 United Nations General Assembly in New York where he spoke on the need to use data and facts as tools in activism and policy making.