The Conservative Party in UK has elected Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke Badenoch as the first Black leader of a Westminster party.
Olukemi Adegoke was born on 2 January 1980 in Wimbledon, London.
She is one of three children born to Nigerian Yoruba parents.
Her father, Femi Adegoke, was a GP and her mother, Feyi Adegoke, was a professor of physiology. She has a brother and a sister.
Badenoch spent her childhood living in Lagos, Nigeria, and in the United States, where her mother lectured.
She returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to the deteriorating political and economic situation in Nigeria, which had affected her family.
Although, a British citizen and born in the UK, during her parliamentary maiden speech Badenoch stated that she was “to all intents and purposes a first-generation immigrant.
(vitalnewsngr.com)
