The Initiator · Africa Uninterrupted
Winihin Jemide
A multi-portfolio entrepreneur — confident performer, seasoned floriculture practitioner, and life-design strategist animating African stories that inspire thinking and initiate action.
Biography
Four passions, one continental voice.
Winihin is a confident and articulate performer, seasoned floriculture practitioner, and life-design strategist. She straddles these functions through acting, oral storytelling, consultancy and accountability coaching.
She animates engaging stories in four main areas of interest: African History, Humans Rising, the Beauty of Gardening, and Faith. Her storytelling sessions, while entertaining, serve as templates to facilitate leadership lessons and life design — drawing out applicable learnings that inspire thinking and initiate action.
Her other passions and enterprise lie in social impact projects and gender advocacy — particularly the participation of women and youth in governance and politics across Africa.
"Africa's story does not need interruption or interpretation. It needs amplification."
Core Areas of Impact
A practice built on four pillars.
Oral Storytelling
African History, Humans Rising, the Beauty of Gardening, and Faith — animated as templates for leadership and life design.
Floriculture & Horticulture
Elevating African horticulture through tours, collaboration, education and sustainable practice.
Life Design & Accountability
Practical group strategy sessions with tangible outcomes and a follow-through accountability lab.
Social Impact & Gender Advocacy
Women and youth in governance and politics — research, campaigns, and community conversations.
By the Numbers
A legacy measured in audiences, gardens & years.
Audience Reached
Live, broadcast & digital
Garden Tours
Welcome To My Garden
Garden & Flower Shows
Convened across years
Years of Experience
Multi-portfolio practice
Years of Storytelling
Stage, page & podium
Years as Landscape & Florist Designer
Studio practice
Documentary Gallery
On stage, in the garden, on the continent.
Storytelling Highlights
Stories that live as praise, protest & invitation.
A repertoire of original oral storytelling pieces — performed on stages across Nigeria and at continental gatherings — that double as templates for leadership and life design.
- 01"Let there be"
- 02"The Press of My Praise"
- 03"I Bear The Mark of Womanhood"
- 04"I Love The Breaking Of The Dawn"
- 05"Raise a Sound"
- 06"Radiant Praise"
- 07"Call Me By My Name"
- 08"My Valentine"
- 09"Welcome Joy!"
Speaking & Performances
From the Oxford Africa Centre to BBC Africa.
RIBS Hybrid Conference
Hindsight In 20/20 Vision
Inspired Women of Worth Conference
Are You The Woman For The Job
Nigeria Risk Awards and Summit
Keynote & Storytelling
Alliance Francaise Jazz Night
A Story of Nigerian Music through the ages
An Evening of Honour (OMA)
Olabode Mubasheer Akangbe Agusto
Warif Fundraiser
Featured Performance
She Rise Round Table (IWD)
The Future is Fe-Male — Accelerating Equality
Lagos International Theatre Festival
The Stories of Us — Africa Uninterrupted
Alliance Francaise
Africa Storytelling Workshop
The Expressions Conference
Second Wind: The Pause
Oxford Africa Centre, Oxford University
Faculty / Speaker
BBC Africa
Contributor
Horticulture & Floriculture
Tranquility, tours, therapy & thoughtfulness.
Presenter — Welcome To My Garden Tours
Over 75 tours and workshops centred on Tranquility, Tours, Therapy & Thoughtfulness.
Author — Imagine A Garden
Views from a Coffee Table. A coffee-table book of gardens from across Nigeria.
Initiator — The Floriculture Project
Consulting, commercialization and implementation across the African floriculture value chain.
Initiator — Africa Horticulture Circle
A Pan-African community promoting green literacy, horticulture education and sustainable growing.
Moderator — Open Day for Gardeners (2025)
A gathering for gardeners to share knowledge and best practices in horticulture.
Convener — Garden & Flower Show Nigeria
Nigeria's first Garden and Flower Show — held yearly from 2013 to 2022.
Garden & Flower Show History
A decade of convening Africa's flowers.
- 2013
Garden & Flower Show Lagos
Imagine A Garden — Maiden Edition
- 2014
Garden & Flower Show Lagos
Waste to Wonderful · Nigeria at 100
- 2014
Garden & Flower Show RHS, United Kingdom
Waste to Wonderful · Nigeria at 100
- 2015
Garden & Flower Show Lagos
Flowers at Christmas I
- 2016
Garden & Flower Show Lagos
Petals on The Runway
- 2017
Garden & Flower Show Lagos
Flowers at Christmas II
- 2018
Open Day for Gardeners
Official Exhibition Coordinator
- 2019
Open Day for Gardeners
Official Exhibition Coordinator
- 2019
Lagos Design Week
Partner Event
- 2020
Garden & Flower Show Nigeria
Welcome To My Garden
- 2021
Garden & Flower Show Nigeria
House of Plants
- 2022
Garden & Flower Show Nigeria
Flower Power
Life Design · Accountability · Faith
Because many times, life just be lifing.
Gather Here — Podcast
Conversations on this marvellous, beautiful and sometimes overwhelming thing called Life.
Life Design Strategy Sessions
Practical group sessions with tangible outcomes, readily applicable strategies and follow-through accountability.
Stories of Faith & Humans Rising
Original storytelling drawn from lived faith and grit.
When Mothers Pray
An intercessory storytelling gathering.
Social Impact & Gender Advocacy
Women and Youth in Governance & Politics.
Advocacy — YEDA
Youth Experience Days Africa: excursions, internships, exchanges, residencies, and debates.
Campaigns
A global commitment to end ageism and sexism in governance. The More Campaign: More Women, More Youth. Women Supporting Women.
Onboarding Impact
Social projects for underserved communities. Geeks in Heels. Trainings and capacity-building.
Conferences & Conversations Hosted
- —Gender Emergence and Economic Development
- —Gender and Big Business
- —Increasing The Numbers: Access and Progress
- —Winihin Jemide Interview Series
- —This Is Our Story: 8 Pan-Africa Stories of Women & Youth in Governance
- —Gender Quotas and Expanding Female Participation in Politics
- —A Model for Change · Community Conversations
- —Shaping Inclusive Governance
Research & Publications
The Winihin Jemide Series Postgraduate Research Grant
In conjunction with The Africa Studies Centre, Oxford University. Four winners selected to continue master-level research tracking data on gender-emergence trends in African politics and governance.
Research Report: Female Representation at State / Local Government Levels in Nigeria, 1999 – 2015.
Acting & Creative Work
On stage. On screen.
Fela and The Kalakuta Queens
Featured in the hugely successful stage production — a BAP Stage Production.
The Bling Lagosians (2019)
Featured as Oge Briggs · Now showing on Netflix.
Charge and Bail (2021)
Featured as Mrs Osai · Now showing on Amazon Prime.
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