Oluwatosin Olaseinde

Oluwatosin Olaseinde is a Nigerian entrepreneur and financial literacy advocate. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Money Africa, a Lagos-based financial education and investment platform that promotes personal finance and investment literacy. Quotes I’m Oluwatosin Olaseinde, founder of Money Africa. I’m from a family of five. I studied at Queens College, Yaba, Lagos. At the age of 16, my family travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo. We lived there for about two years before we moved to South Africa where I obtained my A-Levels, first and second degrees. I also worked in South Africa for a while. In total, I lived in South Africa for about 10 years before moving back to Nigeria. I’m a young person passionate about finance and I’m playing a key role in personal finance in Africa. After my A-Levels in South Africa, I taught children in secondary school accounting and it’s so funny how it all panned out. My sister then was about 10 years old and she was attending a school called Jeppe Primary School, Johannesburg, in South Africa. I used to wake up in the morning, print out fliers, and hand the fliers to parents in their cars for those looking for accounting tutors. That was where I started acquiring my first juices. It was just a side hobby then, really, I just wanted to get extra income, and then lo and behold, here I am doing it on a bigger scale, but I was just doing it. After my A-Levels in South Africa, I taught children in secondary school accounting and it’s so funny how it all panned out. My sister then was about 10 years old and she was attending a school called Jeppe Primary School, Johannesburg, in South Africa. I used to wake up in the morning, print out fliers, and hand the fliers to parents in their cars for those looking for accounting tutors. That was where I started acquiring my first juices. It was just a side hobby then, really, I just wanted to get extra income, and then lo and behold, here I am doing it on a bigger scale, but I was just doing it. After I was done in South Africa, I relocated back home to Nigeria and I got my first job with CNBC Africa in Lagos but something interesting happened. Although I have two degrees in finance and worked for about four years in Finance in South Africa, when I came back to Nigeria, I was broke. I was living from hand to mouth in South Africa despite having a decent income; I didn’t apply any of my personal finance knowledge. Also, the only car I had which I was thinking about selling and then bringing the money back to Nigeria, got stolen and the car didn’t have insurance. So, I came back to Nigeria broke. I remember being in church and my mum squeezed N500 into my hand as an offering and that day, I cried. That was the day I told myself that I never wanted that to happen again. So, I had to start teaching myself about personal finance. External links Category:Businesswomen from Nigeria Category:Chief executive officers Category:Living people