My name is Funmi Akingbade, the founder of Couples Alive Forum International [CAFI]. I have been a marriage and sex therapist for over 20years. I am the first female minister in Nigeria who boldly authors a bestseller on sex between the married couples from an Africa perspective, using the mass media and written materials to broadcast the topic to both the religious and secular world.
 
I have an academic foundation in nursing, with a wide working experience in various government teaching and private hospitals. I am a   graduate of Word of Faith Bible Institute [WOFBI], International institute of transformation the Advanced Oak Seed Executive Leadership Course in Beulah Heights University Atlanta Georgia U.S.A, Federal Radio Cooperation of Nigeria Basic Presentation School.

I am the popular columnist of ‘Sex and Sexuality’, a weekly article in one of the most popular and widest read newspapers in Nigeria, the Saturday’s Punch with a wild readership of over two million. This article can also be access on-line. http://www.punchnigerialimited.org/ or http://www.punchng.com/

 In 1998, I published my first book titled ‘sexual intimacy in marriage, an award-winning book with a print running over 20,000 copies, in print and circulation.  Among others are ‘sex and sexuality’ a compilation of the articles I write in the Punch newspaper, which comes in volumes with the first two volumes already in circulation available in all Nigeria leading bookshops, ‘when singles ‘the romantic gospel’ and many other.