CATEGORY 1: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Academic Achievement
This award recognizes outstanding academic trailblazers who have made outstanding achievements in their various academic pursuits and whose achievements have distinguished them.
CATEGORY 2: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Acting
This award recognizes the outstanding talent and remarkable achievements of an actor or actress whose work has distinguished them.
CATEGORY 3: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Advocacy/Activism
This award recognizes an individual’s contributions to ensuring that their work influences decisions within political, economic, social systems and institutions for the development of the country in their chosen causes.
CATEGORY 4: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Art and Literature
This prize seeks to highlight the extraordinary achievements of visual, performance and digital artists in the field of creative and visual arts within the year in review. The award for literature is given to a young person who has successfully written, published or marketed books.
CATEGORY 5: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Community Action
This prize seeks to acknowledge the contributions of individuals across Africa, to community building within the year in view.
CATEGORY 6: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Content Creation
The spectrum of new media has changed and this award recognizes the contributions of individuals or teams who have dedicated themselves to creating quantifiable impact using the media as a tool for advancement in their chosen fields.
CATEGORY 7: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Entrepreneurship
This award is conferred to an entrepreneur who has founded, led and grown a business or private enterprise to measurable success through extraordinary vision, leadership, and commitment to innovation in the year in view.
CATEGORY 8: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Fashion
This award rewards the work of an individual(s) in the fashion industry who have impacted the industry through his/her chosen medium and created a tangible body of work.
CATEGORY 9: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Film
This award recognizes the contributions of professionals in the film industry towards improving the craft of film making and influencing global audiences within the year in review.
CATEGORY 10: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Health and Wellness
This award recognizes the contribution of an individual or team who has made tangible impact in the health and wellness industry.
CATEGORY 11: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Journalism
This award is given to a writer, reporter, presenter, producer, and other professionals working in the journalism profession who have demonstrated excellence in the storytelling and bringing news to the public.
CATEGORY 12: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Lawyers
This award is given to a young person who has recorded remarkable achievement in the legal sector within the year in review.
CATEGORY 13: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Music (Endowed by Infinix)
This award is conferred to a recording and performing artist whose music has made a significant impact in the industry and earned them local and international repute in the year in review.
CATEGORY 14: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Professional Service
This award recognizes the contributions of a professional who has dedicated themselves to creating tangible impact in the private sector through innovation and collaboration in the year in view.
CATEGORY 15: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Technology
This award acknowledges the work of a researcher, scientist, innovator, inventor who have contributed to the advancement and application of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) either for personal gain, professional advancement, charity or administrative duties within the year in review.
CATEGORY 16: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Service to Young People
This award is given to an outstanding individual who donates their time and money to helping youth across the country, (excluding politicians and people in government).
CATEGORY 17: The Future Awards Africa Prize for Young Person of the Year
This prize is awarded to a young person who has become a force for change, capturing the collective imagination of all Africans through their personal achievements, public image, and personal triumphs.