about the author

What about Paul Ifayomi Grant ?

     Paul Ifayomi Grant was born in Edmonton, North London, in 1966, the second of three childrens. He was schooled in Edmonton and Enfield until the age of 18. He has worked in a variety of roles in the Midlands, including running his own recruitment consultancy business, working in prisons and with ex-offenders as an Employment/Training Adviser, working as a Training & Development Manager, Community Safety Consultant and most recently as the Deputy Chief Executive of a community regeneration programme where he had overall responsibility for project delivery, partnership working and Human Resource issues.
     In February 2006 Ifayomi completed the circle and returned to self-employment and he now works as a writer as well as operating his own consultancy firm Navigation Consulting Ltd.
     He is an active member of the Afrikan community in Nottingham and is involved in a number of community groups, most notably: Nubian Link a community education group, ABDF Ltd (formerly Afrikan Business Development Fund) a community economic development company which he conceived and co-founded, Vice-Chair and co-founder of the Nottingham Black Families in
Education Parent Support Group which provides educational advocacy and support, a founder member of Brother II Brother an Afrikan men’s group delivering rites of passage programmes, and a founder member of the Afrikan Education Forum.
     Paul also helped to create the Empower Group, a support group for Afrikans working in mentoring, which over time has transformed to become a group of friends who support each other on their life journeys.
     Paul is the son of Orinthea and Reuben Grant. He is married to a beautiful Afrikan queen Beverley and they have two lovely children Jawanza Kwesi and Abiba Ashia Orinthea. He has an elder brother Nigel and a younger sister Tracey.
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