Those that really knows who Fifi Ejindu will attest greatly to her fabulous life as a fashionista and a philanthropist. She is business queen, an empress of an empire she built from scratch.
Offiong Ekanem Ejindu was born in Ibadan in 1962. She spent her early years in Ibadan and had her primary education at the Senior Staff Primary School of the University of Ibadan, before moving to Lagos where she obtained her secondary school education from Queens College, Yaba. She attended Pratt Institute School of Architecture, a private design college in Brooklyn, New York where she studied architecture and graduated in 1983. She became the first black African woman to be awarded a B.Arch. from the institute. She went on to take some courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then worked with a private firm in New York City. Princess Fifi also attended the University of North Carolina, (UNC) Charlotte. After some years, she returned to get a Master’s degree in Urban Planning, still from the Pratt Institute. It was after this milestone that Fifi Ejindu decided it was time to come home to Nigeria. In 1995, she started Starcrest, a real estate business that would later grow to become the Starcrest Group of companies. The subsidiaries include Starcrest Investment Ltd., Starcrest Associates Ltd. and Starcrest Industries Ltd, and its businesses extend to include oil and gas, real estate management, building construction, project management, youth empowerment and investment opportunities.
Princess Fifi Ejindu is the CEO of Building Support Systems. She is also the founder of the African Arts and Fashion Initiative, launched in 2013 at Dorchester Hotel in London. This has grown to become a platform for displaying Africa’s cultural heritage and talent to the world and creating opportunities for African youths.