The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), the continent's most prestigious awards platform dedicated to celebrating young African excellence, is proud to announce the nominees of the much-anticipated 18th edition. This year's ceremony, themed "Celebrating the Great and Daring," will continue its legacy of honouring the extraordinary achievements of young…

The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), the continent's most prestigious awards platform dedicated to celebrating young African excellence, is proud to announce the dynamic trio, Ladipoe, Mbryo, and Andre Vibez of Mavin, as the hosts of the highly anticipated nominees unveiling for its 18th edition. This year's ceremony, themed…

The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), the continent's most prestigious awards platform dedicated to celebrating young African excellence, is proud to announce the unveiling of its jury for the 18th edition. Themed "Celebrating the Great and Daring," this year’s awards ceremony carries on the tradition of recognising and honouring…

The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) is happy to announce a transformative partnership with Dukiya Investment, a leading entity in the estate management sector. This collaboration marks a significant leap in TFAA’s mission to champion innovation, leadership, and excellence among Africa’s youth. Dukiya Investment, renowned for its groundbreaking strategies…

The Future Awards Africa has celebrated its 17th award ceremony with dazzling spotlights, intriguing personalities, and odds-defying stories. Described as the “Nobel Prize for Young Africans” by the World Bank, the three-day event tagged “Defying Odds, Inspiring Greatness” celebrated young Africans who have continued to blaze the trail…

The Future Awards Africa has celebrated its 17th award ceremony with dazzling spotlights, intriguing personalities, and odds-defying stories. Described as the “Nobel Prize for Young Africans” by the World Bank, the three-day event tagged “Defying Odds, Inspiring Greatness” celebrated young Africans who have continued to blaze the trail…

The Future Awards Africa, the foremost award celebrating youthful accomplishments, has announced its panel of jurors for the 17th edition. Set to take place in October 2023, the panel of judges will play a pivotal role in meticulously selecting young leaders aged 18 to 31 who have demonstrated…

The 16th Edition of ‘The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) recognized young Africans driving and shaping change across the continent. In this edition, we celebrated the continent’s brightest who have been exceptional through innovation, transformation, advocacy and pioneering in various fields of endeavour. Themed “Celebrating Challengers and Builders”, this…

Acting – Jide-Kene Achufusi, 28. To the uninitiated Jide-Kene Achufusi, better known as Swanky JKA, seemed to fall out of nowhere to land the most coveted film role in all of Nollywood in 2018, the lead in the Charles Okpaleke remake of Nollywood classic, Living In Bondage. But…

Seven extraordinary individuals including innovators, activists and entrepreneurs from across Africa were shortlisted for The Future Awards Africa 2020 Young Person of the Year prize. This year, the awards received over 1500 entries for this prize from over 30 African countries. Of those shortlisted, the top candidates were…

On Saturday, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), held its first-ever TV and digital edition of The Diversity Summit, incorporating a series of panel discussions covering a number of topics inclusion, equality, spirituality, identity, capitalism, environment, special needs and human rights. The Summit which brought together over 100 of…

The Central Working Committee of The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) today has announced that its first-ever TV and digital edition of The Diversity Summit will hold on 28 November, 2020. The TV and digital diversity summit will bring together over 100 of the most influential leaders and thinkers…

The Future Awards Africa Prize for Film Johnson. E. Awolola, 28. The Nigerian film industry is constantly evolving, with new opportunities to collaborate with streaming giants and internationally renowned corporations. All this progress is being championed by a generation of young filmmakers who are honouring the past while…

Africa’s biggest youth awards, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA), has unveiled the nominees for its only category open to public voting, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Service to Young People. The category, a first in the Awards’ 15-year history, recognises outstanding individuals (aged below 55 years) who…

The leading African intervention platform www.beatingcorona.africa has released a report spotlighting ten insights on COVID-19 interventions in Nigeria. The report features vital facts that provide a comprehensive deconstruction of how non-governmental interventions fared in the early stages of the Coronavirus in Nigeria and how they are coping with…

Africa’s Most Prestigious Youth Awards, The Future Awards Africa, has announced its jury. Now in its fifteenth (15th) year, the historically relevant award, known for discovering, spotlighting, and recognizing young African talents has assembled an impressive list of personalities, social activists, creatives, human rights advocates policy-movers, pioneers, culture-shapers,…

Adekunle Hassan (31) Adekunle Kunle-Hassan is a quintessential young leader and astute entrepreneur, passionate about technology and social impact in Africa which has informed his investment in digital technology for quality healthcare delivery. He manages Summitech Computing Limited, a digital agency (software development, digital marketing, software testing and…

Olaseni Cole (32) Olaseni is a General, raising an army of young innovators, inventors, builders and problem-solvers in and from Africa. His project, Empowered Programmers, is an initiative aimed at preparing and equipping children with skills within the tech space helping them solve everyday problems using tech. As a Youth Corper and ICT Instructor in…

Al-farouq Aminu (29) Al-Farouq Aminu is a professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He plays internationally with the Nigeria national basketball team, the Tigers. Aminu was picked by the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2010 non draft with the eighth overall pick. He has also played…

Peace Itimi (24) Peace Itimi is a Digital Marketing Professional, Trainer and budding YouTuber. Thus far, she has personally handled over $200k in advertising budget and worked with brands across different industries and clients from different countries. Some of the brands include Benson Idahosa University, Glo Nigeria, Oando,…