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Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi // ⓘ (born 1 August 1980) is a Nigerian model based in New York City. [ 5 ] [ 3 ] Growing up in the suburbs of Lagos , she won "The Face of Africa" contest at the age of 16.
Peace Hyde is a British-Ghanaian television producer, TV host, creator, journalist, and education activist. [2] She is the creator and executive producer of Netflix's first African reality TV series Young, Famous & African, as well as the Head of Digital Media and Partnership and West African correspondent at Forbes Africa.
Zuriel Elise Oduwole is an American child education advocate and filmmaker. [1] In 2010, at the age of 10, Oduwole was the world's youngest person to appear in Forbes. [2] In November 2014, Zuriel became the youngest filmmaker to self-produced and edited a screened work; [3] [4] she was featured by CNBC.
Tanitoluwa Emmanuel "Tani" Adewumi (born September 3, 2010) is a Nigerian-American chess player who currently holds the title of FIDE Master (FM). A chess prodigy, [2] he won the 2019 K-3 New York State chess championship at the age of 8 after having played the game for only a year while living with his refugee family in a homeless shelter in Manhattan.
Udo-Obong was nominated as one of the 50 most influential young Africans by African Digest in 2002, where he also captained Team Nigeria to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK. Udo-Obong is a recipient of the Akwa Ibom State Honours Roll, and is also a recipient of the Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sports Development ...
The four young men responsible for the 1993 Nigerian Airways hijack were Richard Ogunderu, 19, and Kabir Adenuga, Benneth Oluwadaisi and Kenny Rasaq-Lawal, who were all in their early 20s.
Kai Carlo Cenat III [3] was born on December 16, 2001, [4] in Brooklyn, New York City, [5] to parents from the Caribbean. His mother is from Trinidad and Tobago and his father is from Haiti . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Cenat was raised by his mother along with his three other siblings, a twin sister named Kaiya, [ 8 ] an older brother named Devonte, [ 9 ] and ...
Dr William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868 – 1963), 82-year old anthropologist and publicist, co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) who has been ...