Born in Ibadan, she is the great-granddaughter of King James Ekpo Bassey of Cobham Town in Calabar, Nigeria.
Fifi is the great-granddaughter of James Ekpo Bassey, an Efik monarch of the colonial era whose seat was in Cobham Town, Calabar, Nigeria.
The princess was born Offiong Ekanem Ejindu in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Nigeria.
Her father, Professor Sylvester Joseph Una, studied at the Trinity College in Dublin and Brown University in the United States.
[2] After graduating, Fifi took courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before she went on to work at a private firm in New York City.