Category: TFAA 2019

Adah Clarence (30) Adah Clarence (Gottay) is an internationally recognized creative photographer specialized in fine art/fashion and portrait photography and hails from Kogi state. Adah Clarence finds inspiration in capturing magical moments from everyday life to an unimaginable beauty of nature to unveil the glamour of life when…

Aisha Salaudeen (25) Aisha Salaudeen is a multimedia journalist with years of experience telling and helping people tell stories. She has worked in full time and freelance journalism, using images, videos, and text to report and investigate diverse human-interest stories in Africa. Her work has appeared in the Financial…

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…

Andrea Iyamah (26) Andrea founded and created the Andrea Iyamah apparel brand strongly inspired by color and ethnic cultures at the age of 17. The Andrea Iyamah brand is popularly recognized for its creative take on swim swear using vibrant colors, an array of cuts inspired by diverse African cultures. In she was…

Chinedu Azodoh/ Adetayo Bamiro (29/32) Adetayo Bamiro and Chinedu Azodoh are co-founder and chief growth officer for Max.ng, a Nigerian motorcycle transportation and delivery app operating across Nigeria. Azodoh and his co-founder, Adetayo Bamiro, came up with the idea for the company as part of an assignment while…

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…

Adetola Onayemi (28) Adetola Onayemi, LLB, LLM (Cambridge) is Assistant Chief Negotiator for Nigeria & Head, Trade Remedies at the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN), with sole responsibility for “leading Nigeria’s trade negotiations” and which chaired the negotiating rounds that resulted in the single market for goods…

Osato ‘EDK’ Edokpayi (27) Osato Edokpayi, popularly known as EDK was born in Benin City, Edo State. His love for broadcasting stemmed from watching the seasoned presenters such as; Cyril Stober on television as a child and listening to veteran radio presenters in and around Benin City. He…

Bukky Akomolafe (31) Bukky Akomolafe is the Commercial Manager at Travelstart, Africa’s largest online travel agency. Bukky is in charge of Travelstart Nigeria’s local brand strategy, offline marketing and selecting mutually beneficial partnerships. All with the goal of further deepening Travelstart’s penetration in the Nigerian market. Since launching…

Teniola ‘Makanaki’ Apata (26) Teniola Apata always knew she would perform music for a living. She’d grown up watching her father dazzle audiences with his band and learned the ropes of performance very early in her life. But she wasn’t quite what kind of musician she would be.…

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,…

Akwaeke Emezi (32) Akwaeke Emezi is an lgbo and Tamil writer, best known for their debut novel Freshwater. The New Yorker called it "a startling début novel", The Guardian called it "a remarkable debut", and the LA Times called it "dazzling". Freshwater was longlisted for numerous significant awards. Freshwater was a New York…

Kayode Kasum (28) 10 years ago, in his first year at YABATECH, Kayode Kasum set a goal for himself to work hard to be nominated for The Future Awards someday. Working as a director, cinematographer and animator, his work has come to be recognized for the depth of creativity employed in his storytelling. He has…

Arinze Stanley (26) Arinze Stanley Egbengwu was born in Lagos, Nigeria and graduated from Imo State University with a B.Eng. in Agricultural engineering. Starting at an early age of 6, Arinze had always been enthusiastic about drawing realistic portraits on paper. Being exposed to his family's paper business,…

Hamzat Lawal (32) Hamzat Lawal is a colossus when it comes to social advocacy in Africa, driving activism with vigorous intensity even in the most remote area especially in northern Nigeria where transparency and accountability is almost a myth. As an activist, Hamzi, as he is fondly called,…

Emmanuel Maduka (24) Malnutrition has been a problem of over 200million Africans and about 80million who live under 2USD in Nigeria. In order to combat this, Emmanuel Maduka noticed the vast potential locust bean, which is described as the cheapest source of nutrients, and he capitalized on this…

Timini Egbuson (32) While having famous siblings is a challenge other thespians have to overcome to find their own voice as actors, Timini Egbuson’s path into Nollywood was paved by the charisma and goodwill that his famous big sister Dakore Akande earned in her near two decades in…