Femi Oluwole


Femi Oluwole is a British political activist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocacy group Our Future Our Choice.

Early life and education

Oluwole was born in Darlington to Nigerian parents - a surgeon father and a paediatrician mother, who both emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1980s. He grew up in the West Midlands but as a child lived in several different places across the country, having once attended a school in Dundee. He was privately educated at the Yarm School, and went on to study law and the French language at the University of Nottingham, while completing an Erasmus Programme year in France.

Career

Oluwole has worked in non-governmental organisations and human rights agencies. At the age of 27 he left his job and moved into his parents' loft to become a campaigner against Brexit, telling the Evening Standard that he made the decision to quit because he was "frustrated that the pro-Remain argument was not being made effectively by mainstream politicians." In pursuing this, Oluwole created the social media channel Our Future Our Choice in September 2017, which, with the collaboration of Will Dry and Lara Spirit, who had launched an anti-Brexit student activism movement in universities, was incorporated as a company on 19 February 2018. The group advocates a pro-EU message from a youth standpoint and claims that it will be the younger generation who will have to deal with the economic and political crisis that results from Brexit. Oluwole has toured the United Kingdom, engaging the public in discussions about the European Union. He has also supported the call for a People's Vote.
Oluwole regularly appeared in the media during the process of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union. Oluwole has written for The Independent, The Guardian, and the Metro, and is a regular guest on Talkradio.
In July 2019, Richard Tice, chair of the Brexit Party, threatened to sue Oluwole after he alleged that Leave.EU was "overtly antisemitic". Oluwole refused to apologise.