Lola Shoneyin is the founder of Book Buzz Foundation, which organizes the Ake Arts & Book Festival. She also runs Ouida Books, a publishing house and one of the most vibrant bookstores in Nigeria. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria. In addition to her award-winning novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, Lola Shoneyin has written …
Siba Mtongana is a multi award-winning celeb chef, mom, author, and founder of the The Siba Co When Siba’s Table first aired on Food Network, it not only cemented Chef Siba’s standing as South Africa’s premier culinary phenomenon, but catapulted her to the status of global food icon in more than 135 countries worldwide, and …
June Sarpong is a Director of Creative Diversify, BBC. She has enjoyed a 20-year career which has already seen her become one of the most recognizable faces of British television, as well as being one of the UK’s most intelligent and dynamic young hosts. June is a media phenomenon and is the only host of …
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 …
Abi Matesun is a Director and Filmmaker. He considers himself a super hero; with special ability of enabling people to travel back in time to relive special moments. Filmmaking is not what he does, it’s who he is. Today, Abi delivers premium digital content in cultural, commercial and creative narrations through MalekFoto Films and MalekFoto …
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 …