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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Efosa Ojomo is a Nigerian author, researcher and speaker. He leads the Global Prosperity research group at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a think tank based in Boston and Silicon Valley and is a senior research fellow at the Harvard Business School. Efosa speaks regularly on innovation and has presented his work at …