Background
Femi was born in Britain to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group.
Femi was born in Britain to Nigerian parents of the Yoruba ethnic group.
University of Birmingham.
She is a graduate of Birmingham University where she received a bachelor"s degree in English literature and language. Femi began her career at age 14 working as a junior reporter for the United Kingdom"s first talk radio station London Broadcasting Company. During 1993, Femi worked for a cable station called Wire television, this was pre-Janet Street Porter"s L!VE television Femi presented several shows for the station, including the popular Soap on the Wire on a Saturday afternoon, with soap opera expert Chris Stacey.
In the early 1990s, Femi presented the British Broadcasting Corporation"s flagship educational science programme Science In Action and was also a presenter of Top of the Pops.
She has also worked for GMTV, London Weekend Television, Men & Motors and Carlton Television. She is a former anchor for Cable News Network International"s World Weather service at the network"s global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
She presented weather segments for the programs Your World Today and World News. She also regularly hosted Inside Africa, now fronted by Errol Barnett, a programme that looks into the economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa.
She joined Cable News Network in 1999, and worked there until 2008.
She used to appear as a daily newscaster, contributor and interviewer on Public Radio International/Way of New York City"s morning public radio news program, The Takeaway. Currently, she hosts The Stream on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera English. She has accepted an invitation to teach on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization in Buenos Aires, Argentina, conducted guest lectures for the University of Liberia, Emory University in Atlanta and been a guest speaker at the United Nations, addressing the World Food Programme in Rome, Italy.
