Kemi Filani Biography, Education, Career, Personal Life

Kemi Filani Education Background

The blogger attended Redeemer’s University where she studied Mass Communication and Media Studies attaining her bachelor’s degree in 2011. This was the beginning of her career development in communication. She completed her studies and then practiced for three years before resuming university studies for her master’s degree.

Kemi enrolled in the University of Lagos where she pursued a Master of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies between 2014 and 2015 graduating with a second class upper honors degree.

Kemi Filani Career Journey

Her career in communications started off at Channels Television where she worked as an online news reporter. She would then join the Dailypost to work as a news reporter specifically in the Entertainment department. She covered news in music, arts, and filmography. Afterward came Flytime Promotions Limited where she worked as a website content editor.

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This exposure propelled her interest in establishing her own path and started her own blog named Kemi Filani Blog. She then joined YNaija as the editor of a wedding and was later promoted to staff writer in the same company. Kemi however left and became the editor in chief for Kemi Filani News, a position she holds to date. She works in editing the content posted on social media among other platforms.

The platform, based in Lagos Nigeria talks about a variety of issues such as news, celebrity features, weddings, gossip, and societal analysis.

Kemi Filani Personal Life

She was named one of the top 100 under 30 influential Nigerian writers in 2016 and three years later nominated the best female blogger. Kemi is committed to youth empowerment projects and has reported for Voices of Youth, a UNICEF project in a voluntary capacity. 

She is married and is the mother of one child.