Nonye Ujam: Building the Bridges Between Technology, Policy, and the People Those Systems Are Supposed to Serve
Nonye Ujam has never believed that technology, policy, development, and business belong in separate lanes. She has spent 19 years proving they do not have to be. Her career reads like a deliberate refusal to be defined by any single discipline. She trained as a computer scientist, built expertise in IT law and management at […]
Lamide Akintobi Is Telling Africa’s Stories for the World, One Truthful, Wide-Ranging Story at a Time
“If you don’t evolve, you die.” Lamide Akintobi said it, and she has spent over 15 years living it. From her early days as a news anchor at Channels TV to co-creating and producing The Spot at EbonyLife TV, to now working as a cross-platform producer and digital contributor at CNN International, Lamide has never […]
How Ilda Amani Is Using Her Crown, Her Foundation, and Her Voice to Fight for Eastern Congo
Ilda Amani grew up in Bukavu, a city she loves deeply, and a city the world has largely chosen to look away from. She grew up knowing families displaced by conflict. Neighbours living without knowing what tomorrow would bring. Women and girls subjected to violence so persistent it risks becoming invisible to the outside world. […]
How Oluwaseun Kolawole Is Rebuilding Safety in Nigerian Classrooms
Oluwaseun Kolawole did not set out to build a movement. She set out to teach young people about peace. But in 2021, a wave of school bullying incidents kept appearing in the news, one after another, and she could not look away. What started as research turned into a reckoning. The scale of violence quietly […]
Dr. Lola Olukuewu is Making AI More Accessible Through The Bloom Academy For Artificial Intelligence (BAFAI)
Meet Dr. Lola Olukuewu, a serial entrepreneur, AI investor, founder of BAFAI (The Bloom Academy for AI), and the visionary making sure Africa doesn’t get left behind in the AI revolution. Across real estate and tech, Lola has built businesses do not just generate profit, but also possibility. But it was her curiosity (and concern) […]
“Mentorship has provided me with both practical guidance and the confidence to keep pushing forward”. Kafy Karam For LLA Interview
Meet Kafy Karam, the visionary entrepreneur behind Alé Beaute Clinic, who transformed her personal quest for the perfect smile into Lagos’s premier destination for confidence-boosting beauty treatments. With a journey that began in a London college and evolved from home-based services to a thriving clinic in Lekki Phase 1, Kafy has consistently prioritized education, authenticity, […]