2020 Finalists
It’s such a great privilege to be part of celebrating these courageous souls who are creating safe warm spaces for difference, diversity, inclusion, equality; for humanity.
These are the 15 finalists for the first edition of The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity, endowed with a cash prize of N1 million.
Michael Ernest Nwah
Michael Ernest Nwah advocates and creates spaces for Mindfulness, Meditation, and Yoga. He is the owner of The Yoga Spot ...
Mike Daemon
Mike Daemon currently serves as the executive director of NoStrings Development Initiatives, a queer-led and focused organization he founded in ...
Zainab Adakole
Zainab Adakole is an activist, program officer and community mobilizer, with Women Initiative for Sustainable Empowerment (WISE), an organization responsible ...
Sada Malumfashi
Sada Malumfashi is a writer and a freelance journalist and one of several scholarship holders of the Berlin Reporters Without ...
Ezeigwe Juliet Chioma
Ezeigwe Juliet Chioma is a filmmaker, development communications expert (PR and Digital Marketing), and gender equality advocate. A speaker, trainer ...
Daniel Orubo
Daniel Orubo is a senior editor and producer at Zikoko, whose work focuses on music and lifestyle. He is also ...
Elizabeth Talatu Williams
Elizabeth Talatu Williams is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Impact and Development Initiative working to advance the Sexual Reproductive ...
Solomon O. Ayodele
Solomon O. Ayodele is a Boy Child Advocate, Afrophile, Social Entrepreneur & Digital Transformation Enthusiast. He is the Founder/Lead Execution ...
Angel Nduka-Nwosu
Angel Nduka-Nwosu is a writer, journalist, editor and feminist. She is the co-founder of As Equals Africa, a media advocacy ...
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu is a Biologist, Journalist, Author, and Queer Liberation Activist who lives in Enugu, Nigeria. He earned a ...
Tobiloba Ajayi
Tobiloba Ajayi has over 10 years of experience working with various organizations in the Disability Management sector in different countries. ...
Desmond Vincent
Desmond Vincent is a twenty-one-year-old writer and award-winning journalist living in Nigeria. With his work, he attempts to document the ...
Chisom Ogbummuo
Chisom Ogbummuo is the Founder and Executive Director of The Conversation Café, a safe space for transformative and educative conversations ...
Toluse Dove Francis
Toluse Francis is a born teacher-trainer, a biochemist and supply chain professional turned mental health practitioner, behavioral change professional thought ...
Adelola Edema
Adelola Edema is involved in Special Needs advocacy. Through her annual conference, the Special Needs Conference, she educates members of ...