Omoniyi Ogodo-Bach was born in Ibadan (Nigeria). There she studied German at the University of Ibadan and received her B.A. in 2001. She came to Germany in 1996 as an exchange student at Saarland University. In 2002 she obtained a master’s degree in intercultural communication and European studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Fulda. Her thesis dealt on the one hand with the problem area “trafficking in women and children” and on the other hand with the problem area “gender mainstreaming and gender relations using the example of the Federal Republic and Nigeria”.