Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey. She currently leads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and is a Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden. She served as the 14th president of the Social Science Research Council, …
Arit Okpo is a Nigerian journalist and host CNN International’s African Voices Changemakers the trendsetters shaping Africa today. Its main objective is to shift from the stereotypical narrative of Africa that tends to define the continent only through poverty, conflict, disease, and corruption – to a more positive and uplifting approach when reporting on African …
Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu (born 2 July 1991), known professionally as Burna Boy, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and performing artist. Damini Ogulu was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. His father managed a welding company and his mother worked as a translator. His grandfather Benson Idonije once managed Fela Kuti. His mother Bose Ogulu would later become his manager. …
Sola Sobowale is a Nigerian film actress, screenwriter, director and producer. She had her big break in 2001, in the premiere of Nigeria’s popular television drama series Super Story: Oh Father, Oh Daughter. Sola was born on December 26, 1965, in Ondo State to Joseph and Esther Olagookun. Her father was a retired principal and her …
Kelechi Amadi-Obi, after obtaining a law degree and his call to bar in 1993, settled to full-time studio art. He is a Creative whose earned internationally renown for both his photography and paintings. His unique style, mastery of aesthetics, and creative lighting in his paintings have been reinvented in his photography to create understanding, dynamic …
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator who creates beautiful, accurate visualizations of the dramatic cellular and molecular action that is going on inside our bodies. Beginning his career as a cell biologist, his raw materials are technical reports, research data and models from scientific journals. As an artist he works as a translator, from abstract …
Obi Asika is the founder & CEO of Storm 360,a businessman, entrepreneur, show promoter. He was born on the 3rd of October 1968 in his hometown in Anambra State, a state in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. Obi attended Ekulu Primary School between 1974 and 1977 for his primary school. He has worked in Banking, …
Camille Selvon Abrahams is the founder and creative director of the Caribbean’s first animation and new media festival– Animae Caribe Animation and New Media Festival. She’s an internationally recognised animator and multi-media producer. She also founded the Full Circle Production Animation Studio, a state-of-the-art production and training facility for young animators. Under her creative direction, …
Nomcebo Zikode is a Musician armed with extensive experience as a backing vocalist for some of the top shelve musicians in the country. She found her mojo as a solo singer. Her single, Imizamo Yami, bursts with fresh and throbbing beats as she presents her brand of Afro house. She worked with Bongo Beat on …
Lisa Hunt is a Maplewood, NJ-based visual artist whose screen-printed works explore the meditative relationships of patterns. Hunt draws inspiration from textiles, often working with a gold leaf motif. Recently, she expanded into collage, where her work is influenced by traditional African American quilt-making. In 2021, Lisa Hunt became a founding fellow at the New …