Nominees for The Future Awards Africa 2017 (TFAA2017) covered today’s edition of ThisDay Style Magazine. Selected nominees will also make an appearance on Nigeria’s most popular youth talk show, Rubbin’ Minds on ChannelsTV at 3pm today. The ThisDay Style cover features TFAA2017 nominees including Adekunle Gold, Ini Dima…
The Future Awards Africa 2017 Nominees Reception hosted at The Ford Foundation office, in Ikoyi. Photos of some of the nominees and guests at the reception. Bukunyi Olateru-Olgbegi Chair, The Central Working Committee of The Future Awards Africa
With the mandate to celebrate and accelerate innovation among Nigerians aged 18 – 31, the TFAA acknowledges inspiring young people making a difference through social enterprise, social good, and creativity. Arguably Nigeria’s most influential artist this year, Wizkid released one of the biggest albums of the year,…
The Future Awards Africa Prize for Acting Samuel Ajibola (30) Nollywood is an unforgiving place for actors. It is even worse for child actors, who struggle to find roles that provide nuance and truly challenge the ability of the child actor to understand…
The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has unveiled its list of nominees for the 12th edition of the prestigious awards. With the mandate to celebrate and accelerate innovation among young Nigerians aged 18 - 31, the TFAA acknowledges inspiring young people making a difference through social enterprise, social good,…
Africa’s biggest awards event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), is set to unveil the nominees for its 12th edition this Sunday, 19 November 2017. Hosted by two of Nigeria’s media personalities, Arthur Ngwube of Rhythm FM and Tallulah Doherty of EbonyLife TV, the unveiling will be televised on…
The Future Project announces its training scheduled for first quarter 2017. TFESS will continue to support and up-skill young persons who are interested in developing their skills in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Creative (ETC). This quarter, TFP has partnered with Gamsole (a Gaming Mobile Company) and A2…
Africa's biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa came to a triumphant climax on Sunday when it held its annual ceremony, now in its 11th year. We were introduced to the key players shaping the future in the 105 nominees identified across 21 categories. The event was well…
The Future Awards Africa & EbonyLife Prize for Acting ADESUA ETOMI 30 Her professional acting career began in 2014 with the release of her first film Knocking On Heaven’s Door. Her brand shows that all you need is talent and the courage to chase your dreams and…
If you're reading this, you were probably told in your early years, that you are the future leader of tomorrow. Well, tomorrow is today. A few hours ago, The Future Awards Africa, Africa's biggest youth event revealed its nominees, aged 18 - 32, for its awards that reward…
The wait is finally over! Nominees for Africa's biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa, now in its 11th year, will be unveiled this Sunday! Doing the honours will be the next big things in entertainment: actor and TV personality Timini Egbuson and TV host & fashion IT…
Following the announcement by the Central Working Committee (CWC) for Africa’s biggest youth event The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), the Awards is launching its country model plan with a focus on Nigeria. This has been a difficult year in Nigeria, but despite the adversity, the youth have risen to the…
The Central Working Committee for Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), has announced its plans for the next 10 years of the awards. The move follows a review of the last ten years by its Global Board of Advisors - meeting in July 2016.…
Philip Obaji Jr winner of The Future awards Africa(TFAA) was among the participants at the 37th International Human Rights Training Program (IHRTP) which held from June 5 - 24, 2016 in Montreal, Canada. The IHRTP was designed to build capacity within participants to undertake more effective human rights…
In 2000, the Economist made a bold declaration about Africa: it called us the hopeless continent. We screamed. We protested. Oyinbo people are trying to put us down. They are insulting us. It's time for us to tell our own stories. E. T. C. So by 2011, the…
The 10th year anniversary edition of The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) which held today at the prestigious Intercontinental Hotels, Victoria Island, Lagos, lived up to its billing as Africa’s biggest youth event. The awards hosted by multi-talented singer and producer, Dare Art-Alade and South Africa’s leading OAP, Bonang Matheba saw 11 outstanding young achievers rewarded for their excellent work…
The Central Working Committee for The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) 2015 has announced the hosts of the 10th anniversary! They are Bonang Matheba, South Africa’s favourite media personality, Bonang Methaba and award-winning artiste and music entrepreneur Dare Art-Alade. The hosts represent the best of young Africans from…
Following the announcement of nominees for The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) 2015 in a continent-wide broadcast on EbonyLife TV and Channels TV yesterday, the awards have unveiled photos of the nominees today in an exciting art campaign with Comic Republic. The 50 young Africans who are the nominees…
Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa has announced the ambassadors for the 10th anniversary – a stellar cast of past winners of the awards across business, development, governance and the creative industries. The 10 selected ambassadors are international recording artiste Bukonla ‘Asa’ Elemide…
The Central Working Committee (CWC) of Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has officially launched the media campaign for the 2015 edition – which celebrates 10 years of inspiring Africa. The campaign is themed #AfricaNeedsYou, and it will be driven by a tour of 100 cities…
Nominees who have positively demonstrated drive and action in actively tackling youth unemployment with positive impact in their communities will be screened in the following cities - Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, Ibadan, Kano and Lagos starting from tomorrow October 22, 2015. The competition will be selecting six…
The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) organises a 10th anniversary tour wherein we would also visit 10 states in Nigeria. TFAA hopes to identify inspiring stories of Young Africans in these states and highlight issues affecting the specific areas visited and raise funds directly from the general public to support it.…
The Ford foundation, as part of their efforts to empower young Nigerians, has partnered with The Future Project's The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) on the Ford Foundation Prize for Youth Employment. The award seeks nominees who have positively demonstrated, drive and action by individuals actively…
The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), Africa’s biggest youth awards, will be touring 10 African cities to host town hall meetings as part of run up to the 10th edition of TFAA set to take place in December. The town hall meetings, designed…
As part of its the launch of the 2015 season of The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), The Future Project (TFP) paid courtesy calls to the Canadian High Commissioner, Mr Perry John Calderwood and Swiss Deputy Head of Mission, Mr Daniel Cavegn in Abuja on 23 and 25 June, 2015.…
The Future Awards Africa (#TFAA2014) which took place on the 7th of December, 2014 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria was heralded by lots of celebration and fanfare, most of which were centered on the recognition and acknowledgement of young entrepreneurs breaking boundaries (literally) to define…
Before I turn 30 next year, help us reach over 500,000 youth with jobs and skills Being a speech delivered by Chude Jideonwo, Executive Director, The Future Project at The Future Awards Africa 2014, 7 December, Intercontinental Hotels, Lagos, Nigeria In March next year, I will finally turn 30. I can’t wait for that day to come. More importantly it will be 15 years since I started my work career, and all of that 15 years has been focused on the youth. At least 10 of it, specifically on youth development.
Winner, The Future Africa Awards Prize in Advocacy Boniface Mwangi AGE 31 TITLE Pawa 254 initiative PROFILE While hawking goods on the streets of Nairobi, Mwangi, discovered a different passion – Photography. Leaving school at age 15, he convinced the director of a private journalism school to let…