“Bold”, “fearless”, “creative”, and “great” are words to describe our Woman Crush Wednesday, Oyinkansola Foza Fawehinmi who is an intellectual property (IP) expert in African entertainment law. She is currently the President of Digital Music Commerce and Exchange Limited, an intellectual property valuation, management and administration company serving sub-Saharan Africa.
For close to a decade, she has served as a legal advisor and business consultant for some of the top African entertainment companies and artists namely Chocolate City Music, Premier Records, Boomplay Music, Infinix Nigeria, K1 De Ultimate, Teni, Adekunle Gold, The Sarz Academy, Sarz and more.
To her credit, Foza has sealed deals worth over US$10,000,000 working with top talents from five countries and collaborating with several governments in the sub-Saharan African region on IP matters. She has established herself as an innovative solution provider spearheading the causes of entertainers, record companies and institutions in Nigeria.
In 2013, she worked as an Executive Assistant/Road Manager at Monarc Entertainment, Lagos. Moving further, she worked as the CEO of Incubation Factory Entertainment Limited, Lagos between 2016 and 2021. She also then moved to Technolawgical Partners serving as the Managing Partner from 2015 to 2020.
This multiple award-winning lawyer is the recipient of the Prize for Lawyer at the 2021 Future Awards Africa, and Young Professional of the Year at the 2021 Esq Awards. She was named among the TurnTable Power List of Top 30 Music Executives (2021) and MIPAD — 100 Most Influential People of African descent (2022).
Having graduated from Babcock University, she went to Nigerian Law School, Lagos campus. She is currently undergoing an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology. She serves as the secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, and is the vice president of the Nigerian chapter of the Women in Music association. She is also an advisory member of Audio Girl Africa, and a mentor under the Femme Africa platform.
Pride Magazine Nigeria is mesmerised by Foza Fawehinmi’s achievements and is rooting for her as she graces our timeline as a Woman Crush Wednesday.