Hammed Kayode Alabi is an edtech leader, 2x TedX speaker, poet, author, and social entrepreneur known throughout Africa for his advocacy for education, youth, and sustainable development. He describes himself as a product of grace and circumstance. He grew up in the largest floating slum in Africa “Makoko-Nigeria”, lost his mother at age 7, and watched his father struggle to find employment and this became his motivation for empowering young leaders in his community and education offered him that pathway. By the age of 15, he was already teaching in a basic rural school in Lagos and later founded a nonprofit, the “Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative -KLCI (https://klciafrica.org/ )” and a social innovation “Skill2Rural Bootcamp.
Hammed Kayode Alabi
With over 100 volunteers across 10 states in Nigeria, KLCI through Skill2Rural Bootcamp (https://skill2rural.org/ ) has used blended learning to provided life, 21st-century skills, leadership development, and career readiness training to over 8000 young people in underserved communities such as slum, rural, and internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Nigeria and Africa. Hammed spoke at the Pre-Summit of the Transforming Education Summit at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris where he shared his vision to revolutionise 21st-century skills-based education to over 50 ministers of education across the world. He has written three books and authored over 192 articles focusing on personal, community, and global development. He is currently working on using generative AI to create context-specific personalized learning for users of Skill2Rural.org platform and predict 21st-century career pathways for young people.