Alexx Ekubo is an award-winning Nigerian Actor, Model, Motivational Speaker, Compere, Producer & Entertainer. He is also referred to as “Johnny” from the popular Yemi Alade Song “Johnny” which has over 90 million views on youtube, thereby making it the most-watched music video out of Africa. Alexx Ekubo has won numerous awards & competitions; like …
Bukky George-Taylor (Karibi-Whyte) is the CEO and Founder of boutique Public Relations Firms, ‘The Bobby Taylor Company’ and ‘Invicta Africa’ Communications Limited. Her passion and love for Public Relations stem from her mother who was also a PR/ Marketing Practitioner (Aviation Industry), exposing Bukky to the world of Public Relations at a young age. She …
Orondaam has been a community organizer, development consultant, and social entrepreneur for over 15 years, working with thousands of young people across the private and public sectors. He has been committed to building Africa’s future by providing education for children and youths across underserved communities, improving education and human capital development policies, and promoting reform-based …
Farai is a Partner Management Lead at Youth Employment Service (YES). YES is a business-led NPO that works in partnership with government and labor to initiate policy changes that create jobs for the youth. Prior to YES, Farai served as a project manager at The Aurum Institute, a leading African TB and HIV research, and …
Leo Nupolu Johnson is an experienced non-profit executive, entrepreneur, human rights specialist, public speaker, and United Nations Fellow. As a teenager, he spent eight years in refugee camps in Ivory Coast and Ghana after fleeing from the civil war in his native Liberia. In 2006, he resettled in Canada as a government-assisted refugee. Leo Nupolu …
As an anthropologist of religion, Youssef is interested in the manner in which religious discourses and movements become oriented in the direction of abolition. He is fascinated with how Muslims in the United States and in West Africa interpret their religion as a means of empowerment in the face of oppression while relying on scripture …
Tosin Durotoye sits at the helm of GreenHouse Lab, the first female-focused tech accelerator program in Nigeria. The first of its kind in the country, GreenHouse Lab is a three-month accelerator focused solely on early-stage, women-led technology start-ups in sub-Saharan Africa and African-run start-ups domiciled in the US or UK with products that are scalable in …
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 …