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Denola Grey

Denola Grey is the professional name of Adenola Adepetun, a Nigerian fashion consultant and style personality whose public career also includes television presentation, content creation and acting. His documented work spans fashion consulting, EbonyLife TV's EL NOW and screen…

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Deola Sagoe

Deola Sagoe is a Nigerian fashion designer and founder of House of Deola, known for African haute couture, bespoke clothing and bridal wear. Her work also includes award-winning costume design for film.

Kendall Jenner

Kendall Jenner is an American fashion model, reality-television personality, and entrepreneur. She is known for high-fashion runway and editorial work, appearances in the Kardashian-Jenner television franchise, and her association with the tequila brand 818.

Edward Enninful

Edward Enninful is a Ghana-born, London-raised fashion editor and stylist known for his editorial work at i-D, Vogue titles, W Magazine and British Vogue. After serving as British Vogue's editor-in-chief, he co-founded the media and entertainment company EE72.

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Idris Elba

Idris Elba is a British actor, producer and director best known for playing Russell "Stringer" Bell in The Wire and DCI John Luther in Luther. His wider screen career includes directing the 2018 feature film Yardie and operating through the production company Green Door Pictures.

Olu Jacobs

Olu Jacobs, reported to be Oludotun Baiyewu Jacobs, is a veteran Nigerian actor known for work across theatre, television and film. His wider contribution includes co-founding a performing-arts academy and receiving major African film-industry honours.

Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler is an American actor, comedian, writer and producer known for his work on Saturday Night Live, a long film career spanning comedy and drama, and the production company Happy Madison Productions. His acting and contribution to American humor have been recognized by…

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is an actor and filmmaker known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Girl, Interrupted, feature directing work including In the Land of Blood and Honey and First They Killed My Father, and more than two decades of engagement with UNHCR.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist and essayist known for books including Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, and Dream Count. Her wider public profile includes major literary awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the TED talk The Danger of a Single…

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese is an American film director and producer known for films including Taxi Driver, The Departed, and Killers of the Flower Moon. Alongside his filmmaking career, he helped establish The Film Foundation in 1990 to advance film preservation.

Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber Chappelle

Dave Chappelle is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating, writing, producing, and starring in the sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show and for his subsequent stand-up specials.

Bolanle Austen-Peters

Bolanle Austen-Peters is a Nigerian lawyer, theatre and film director, producer, and cultural entrepreneur. She founded Terra Kulture and BAP Productions, institutions associated with Nigerian stage productions, film, cultural promotion, and creative-skills training.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio is an American film actor and producer known for roles including Titanic and his Academy Award-winning performance in The Revenant. He founded Appian Way Productions and was designated a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change.

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Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde

Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde is a Nigerian screen actor and filmmaker associated with Nollywood. Known for films including Mortal Inheritance, she was named to the 2013 TIME 100, invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018, and later directed Mother's Love.

Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for an interdisciplinary practice that uses Dutch wax textiles and historical references to examine colonialism, post-colonialism, race, class, cultural identity and globalization.

Thebe Magugu

Thebe Magugu is a Johannesburg-based South African fashion designer and creative director who founded the THEBE MAGUGU label in 2016. Known for work that draws on South African history, culture and personal narratives, he won the LVMH Prize in 2019 and has extended his practice…

Omar Sy

Omar Sy is a French actor and producer known for his César-winning performance in Intouchables, his comedy partnership with Fred Testot, and roles in French and international screen productions. He has Senegalese paternal and Mauritanian maternal heritage.

William Kentridge

William Kentridge is a South African visual artist and stage director known for work across drawing, printmaking, animated film, sculpture, performance, theatre, and opera. His public significance rests particularly on his charcoal-based animation method and his integration of…

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. is an American actor and producer best known for portraying Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, in Marvel Studios films. His career also includes an Academy Award-winning supporting performance in Oppenheimer and his work with Susan Downey as co-founder of the…

Adesua Etomi-Wellington

Adesua Etomi-Wellington is a Nigerian screen and theatre actor whose work includes Nollywood films, television series and stage productions. She won the 2016 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Award for Best Actress in a Drama for Falling, while more recent reporting has associated…

Ben Okri

Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born poet and novelist best known for The Famished Road, which won the 1991 Booker Prize. His work also encompasses short fiction, essays, plays and film scripts.

IK Osakioduwa

Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa

Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa, professionally known as IK Osakioduwa, is a Nigerian television host, radio presenter and live-event compere best known for presenting Big Brother Africa, the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards and Nigerian Idol.

Hidetaka Miyazaki

Hidetaka Miyazaki is a video-game director and the Representative Director and President of FromSoftware. He is known for directing or guiding the development of action role-playing games including Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring.

Mercy Johnson Okojie

Mercy Johnson-Okojie

Mercy Johnson-Okojie is a Nigerian screen actor and producer known for award-recognised performances, feature-film production and appointments to state-government advisory roles.