Ayodele Ganiu is a culture producer and activist defending artistic freedom and advocating for cultural policy in Africa. He is the founder of Unchained Vibes Africa where his recent work focuses on music for civic engagements. Ayodele was previously the program director of Intro Afrika and artistic director of Yoruba Drum Festival. He has dedicated his career to defending artistic freedom and coordinating emergency assistance for artists at risk. Ayodele has served as Nigerian national coordinator, continental coordinator for Artwatch Africa and regional program officer for Africa at Freemuse. He has also worked with major stakeholders in Nigeria, successfully advocating for a new copyright bill for greater protection for artists' intellectual property. Ayodele was a recipient of the O'Brien Fellowship by the Center for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University, Canada in 2019 and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Washington D.C., United States in 2020.