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"

Khanyi Dhlomo

Journalist, Entrepreneur & Award-Winning Editor

Stephanie Busari

Supervising Producer at CNN; Founder of TEDxBrixton

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Painter and Multi-Media Artist

Kofi Siriboe

Actor & Model; Best Known for his Role in OWN's "Queen Sugar"

Enuma Okoro

Nigerian-American Author and Lecturer; Columnist, Financial Times; Global Citizen

Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent

Valentino Achak Deng

Surviving Lost Boy of Sudan, Co-Founder of the VAD Foundation, & Author of "What is the What"

Emi Mahmoud

Poet, Social Activist & UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Uzodinma Iweala

CEO of The Africa Center & Author of "Beasts of No Nation"

Chris Ategeka

Founder & CEO of UCOT, Inc.

Thando Hopa

South African Lawyer, Diversity Advocate, Model, Actress & Writer

Tanisha C. Ford

Author, Cultural Critic and Professor of Africana Studies & History

Shirley Frimpong-Manso

Founder and CEO of Sparrow Productions, Film Director, Writer, and Producer

François Clemmons

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

Felwine Sarr

Anne-Marie Bryan Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Duke University

Afrotopia

Mo Abudu

CEO of EbonyLife Group

Anthea Butler

Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania

Yemi Alade

Singer, Songwriter, Composer & Actress

Lusanda Mbane

Award-Winning Actor, Businesswoman & Social Activist

Laolu Senbanjo

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