Julius Maada

President of Sierra Leone

Sellanga "Blinky Bill" Ochieng

Musician, Producer, & DJ; TED Fellow

Mohamed Bailor Barrie

Physician & Strategic Advisor to Partners in Health

Lola Adedokun

Health Equity Advocate; Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group; Co-Chair of the Aspen Forum on Women and Girls; Former Director at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

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Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

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Kagiso Lediga

Filmmaker, Comedian & Actor; Co-Founder of Diprente Films; Box Office Sensation

Momo Bertrand

Founder of MomoB Marketing Agency, Digital Entrepreneur & Storyteller

Remi Adeleke

Former Navy Seal, Actor & Author of "Transformed: A Navy SEAL’s Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds"

Yodit Tewolde

Nationally Renowned Criminal Defense Attorney & Host on Court TV

Farida Nabourema

Political Activist, Writer, Human Rights Defender & Pan-Africanist

Duckie Thot

Model & Face of Fenty Beauty

Nadifa Mohamed

Award-Winning Novelist; Known for "Black Mamba Boy"

Emi Mahmoud

Poet, Social Activist & UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

John H. Bracey, Jr.

Co-Director of the African Diaspora Studies at Amherst College

François Clemmons

Singer, Actor, Playwright & Lecturer; Best Known as Officer Clemmons on "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood"

Joel Jackson

Founder & CEO of Mobius Motors Kenya

Kamau Gachigi

Founder & Executive Director of Gearbox

Laolu Senbanjo

Performance & Visual Artist Whose Art Has Been Featured In Beyonce's "Lemonade"

Dixon Chibanda

Psychiatrist & Director of the African Mental Health Initiative; Founder & CEO of Friendship Bench Zimbabwe

Isabel dos Santos

Eldest Daughter of Angola's Longtime President; Richest Woman in Africa