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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …