Nyeleti Honwana is a leading scholar on youth, protest movements, and social change in Africa. Honwana is currently Inter-Regional Adviser on social development policy at the United Nations in New York. She has been a Centennial Professor and the Strategic Director of the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at London School of Economics and Political …
Nicholas André G. Johnson has engaged in optimization and machine learning research at MIT, Princeton University, Oxford University and the Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms. He is currently a PhD student in Operations Research, the study of how to make good decisions with limited information in uncertain environments, at MIT where he is working towards …
Muhammed Lamin Saidykhan is an award winning Pan African Advocate of the year 2018 and was named as 100 most influential young people leaders in Africa in 2019. As a human rights activist he organised widespread protests to get long Gambia dictator Yaya Jammeh to step down. Muhammed Lamin the Movement Coordinators of Africans Rising …
Mary Dinah is the CEO of Mary Dinah Foundation, an NGO focused on alleviating hunger, currently feeding over 4 million meals a year to children in crisis zones globally. With an academic background which includes institutions such as Harvard University and University of Oxford, Mary continues to work on humanitarian causes to improve the lives …
Kwame Opoku is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a forward for USM Alger. Opoku began his career at Division One League side Nkoranza Warriors, before signing for Asante Kotoko. In 2020, Asante Kotoko announced that they had signed him from Nkoranza-based club Nkoranza Warriors on a three-year contract. He scored a brace to earn a win …
Jatali Bellanton is the founder of the youth financial literacy organisation Kids Who Bank. After 13 years in the finance worlds of corporate UK and America helping clients make and retain millions she is now mainly recognized for being an award winning author, investor and her two major creations: a finance curriculum which has gone into …
On May 26th,2021 there was a virtual event organized by Most Influential People of African Descent. It was a global conversation titled Connecting Creatives to Capital: “Investment is the key to unlocking the true potential of the Creative Industries.” The panelists included Alexandra Hannibal: Director, CNN Films (USA), Ben Amadasun: Netflix Director, Content in Africa (Nigeria), …
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Ingrid is a Brazilian ballet dancer who currently performs with the Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York City. Silva was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, to a father who served in the air force and mother who was a maid. At age 8, she started ballet through a community out-reach program, then …
Ifedayo is an Author, Entrepreneur, and Young Global Leader with over 10 years of management and leadership experience working in the fashion, marketing and manufacturing Industries. She is very passionate about women and youth contributing to national development, thus launched a platform called the AGS Tribe to connect women to each other and business opportunities …
Adewale “Wally” currently serves as the president of the Obama Foundation. Formerly senior advisor at the Blackrock and the center for strategic and International studies, Adeyemo was appointed by President Obama in 2015 as his senior international economics advisor. In this capacity he was the deputy national security advisor for international economics and the deputy …