Nafiou Arouna was born in Gléi, Togo, on October 03, 1990. He obtained the baccalauréat in Togo befor moving to Italy to study for a degree. He graduated cum laude in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pisa in 2016 and obtained the master's degree in Human Nutritional Sciences from the same University in 2019. The training and master thesis periods were carried out, from December 2018 to July 2019, at the Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, where his research interests were focused on the effect of fermentation and germination on bioactive compounds, antioxidant and antihypertensive activities of ancient grains and plant materials from Tuscany and Africa.