Following the hugely successful and first in-person event in six years, TEDxAccra has today launched an exclusive 8-part podcast series in partnership with The Change Africa Podcast, the popular podcast series that democratises African thought leadership by platforming the ideas, lives and impact of change-makers and doers at the fore of Africa’s transformation.
Hosted by Acast, The Change Africa Podcast: A TEDxAccra Special is an 8-episode weekly series that will feature in-depth discussion into the work and impact of the “TEDxAccra Agents of Change” speakers. Each podcast episode will be dedicated to one of the 2022 speakers who come from the fields of Education, Tech, Sports, Social Impact, and Creative Arts. Full line-up below:
- Aisha Addo, Founder Power to Girls Foundation
- Del Titus Bawuah, Founder Web3 Accra
- Jabari Hall, Founder JHASHEART
- Kenny Annan Jonathan, CEO The Mail Room
- Nana Danso, Contemporary Artist
- Patrick Fynn, Founder StandOut Care and One Young World Ambassador
- Precious Bonsu, Founder CEO Whale Learning Group
- Stefania Manfreda, Founder Creative Lead & Curator Lokko House
The Change Africa Podcast: A TEDxAccra Special will extend the conversation through a reflective interaction with these agents of change and offer exclusive access to these speakers, whose stories shine the light on Black Excellence and continue to inspire the next generation of young black agents of change. The podcast, together with TEDxAccra, is committed to providing a platform that champions change agents who are positively impacting African communities across the Continent and are inspiring the next generation of change agents.
Tim Yaw Struthers, TEDxAccra Curator “The TEDxAccra team has long admired the Change Africa Podcast, so we are thrilled to partner with the team to launch this special series. Our collective mission is to highlight the work of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora who are making tangible and long-lasting changes in their respective fields. The launch of this series will allow these voices to be heard on the global stage.”
Isaac Aboah, Change Africa Podcast Host “The conversations on the Change Africa Podcast always present a cathartic, refreshing meditation on the works of our guests by presenting a space for them to be authentic and vulnerable. The podcast always reveals the deeper meaning and purpose of their change journeys. And this is why the TEDxAccra collaboration is so meaningful to us, as we help discover and spread ideas that spark imagination, embrace possibility and catalyse impact in consonance with TED’s mission.”
The Change Africa Podcast: A TEDxAccra Special is produced by Isaac Aboah, Daniel Merki and executive produced by Tim Yaw Struthers.
The Change Africa Podcast is hosted by Acast and available to listen to wherever you get your podcasts.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. (Subject to certain rules and regulations.)
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About TED
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, often in the form of short talks delivered by leading thinkers and doers. Many of these talks are given at TED conferences, intimate TED Salons and thousands of independently organized TEDx events around the world. Videos of these talks are made available, free, on TED.com and other platforms. Audio versions of TED Talks are published to TED Talks Daily, available on all podcast platforms.
TED’s open and free initiatives for spreading ideas include TED.com, where new TED Talk videos are posted daily; TEDx, which licenses thousands of individuals and groups to host local, self-organized TED-style events around the world; the TED Fellows program, which selects innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities; The Audacious Project, which surfaces and funds critical ideas that have the potential to impact millions of lives; TED Translators, which crowdsources the subtitling of TED Talks so that big ideas can spread across languages and borders; and the educational initiative TED-Ed. TED also offers TED@Work, a program that reimagines TED Talks for workplace learning. TED also has a growing library of original podcasts, including The TED Interview with Chris Anderson, WorkLife with Adam Grant, Pindrop and TEDxSHORTS.
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About Change Africa Podcast
Change Africa Podcast is a podcast produced by Nexa Media, a media and distribution company focused on audio and documentary production.
The podcast delves deeply into the foundational stories and motivations that drive the work of Africa’s change agents, their core ideologies that influence their lives and impact, and how they are tied to a broader continental change. In our 30 published episodes, we have engaged in intriguing intellectual conversations with Africans leading and building institutions, communities and ideas that are already impacting the lives of thousands of people around the world. From distinguished personalities to less-known mavericks, the podcast constantly engages the brightest and most passionate Africans, carving a new path for African prosperity.
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SPEAKER BIOS
Aisha Addo – Founder, Power To Girls Foundation
Passionate and dedicated about ensuring girls around the world are provided with the guidance and resources that help them identify their true purpose and calling to reach their full potential. Founder of Power To Girls Foundation, a non-profit organization to offer young girls the mentors and role models that were absent during her youth. Award-winning entrepreneur and creator of “My Power App” the first social connection app for girls to access mentorship and educational resource in a safe online space.
Social Media Handles– @aishaafua (IG /TWITTER ) @mypower.app @powertogirlsca (IG) – LinkedIN -Aisha Addo (Personal ) Power to Girls Foundation \ My Power App
Del Titus Bawuah – Founder Web3 Accra
Del Titus Bawuah is a Web 3 entrepreneur with a background originally in real estate and fund raising for alternative early-stage UK based tech start-ups. Now a founder of a decentralised community building platform called Web 3 Accra (W3A) and a Decentralised Autonomous Fund (D.A.O) with additional business interests within, sanitation & cultural impact.
Del’s life work is now strictly focused on advancing causes that narrow in on decentralised technology that works towards creating community, connection, sustainability, and cultural impact daily to continuing a legacy inspired by his grandfather Dr. Bafour Adjie Bawuah (Ghana’s FMR. Ambassador to the United States) to bridge the gap between the diaspora & Africa.
Social Media Handles– Instagram – @Deltitusbawuah Twitter – @deltitusbawuah LinkedIn – Del Titus Bawuah
Jabari Hall – Founder, JHASHEART
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Jabari immigrated to the US in 1994. He grew up in a poor stricken neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY – where gang violence and murder was prevalent. The youngest of 5, he never settled for what the world gave him, instead, made his own mark gaining a full scholarship to Penn State University.
Jabari created his own company after graduating college and went on to earn the kind of money he always dreamed of. But he soon realized that money alone is not fulfilling. He then set out to impact humans around the world that either grew up like he did, look like he does, or are looking for a future better than their present circumstances.
Jabari is the founder of JHASHEART, a non-profit based out of Brooklyn NY. He is passionate about Social Emotional Learning. He empowers others to believe in their gift and talent and be the best version of themselves.
Social Media Handles – Instagram: @iamjabarihall Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jabari.hall.31 Twitter: @jabarihall
Kenny Annan Jonathan – CEO, The Mail Room
Kenny Annan-Jonathan is a British born Ghanian Sports-marketing businessman. Kenny designs ineffable ties between Sports, lifestyle and entertainment. With an extreme passion and creative outlook on storytelling, Kenny’s unique insight aims to motivate global trends and experiences as he strives to build economical / social independence within the sporting world. Kenny is the CEO of The Mailroom, a creative hub, formed to help develop organic spaces for athletes to express and capitalize on the truest version of themselves.
Social Media Handles– Instagram: @Themailroom. Twitter: @Themailroom https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenny-annan-jonathan-46941687/
Nana Danso – Contemporary Artist – Art Soul Kojo
Danso Awuah-Asante best known as Nana Danso, is a Ghanaian contemporary artist whose art has gained recognition thanks to his involvement in street art in Accra and substantial collaborations with global brands. His endless cast of characters and personalities; address a broad spectrum of universal and existential philosophies with childlike appeal. His childlike strokes and elementary shapes recall the simple yet complex imaginations of the human psyche, laying bare the limitless possibilities of how one can perceive the world. Self-taught, Nana Danso began painting and creating art extensively as an outlet for his love for stories. His work fuses aspects of storytelling, abstract poetry combined with an impressionist and pop-art visual look.
Social Media Handles– Instagram: @_nanadanso_ | @artsoulkojostudio Twitter: @_nanadanso_
Patrick Fynn – Founder, StandOut Care and One Young World Ambassador
Patrick Fynn is a physician, youth leader, and a social entrepreneur. He is founder and team leader for Standout Care, a social enterprise that provides free to affordable healthcare to remote communities, underserved populations in Ghana. His work in civic engagement and the not-for profit sector has spanned over 5 years of driving social change through community-based healthcare initiatives. He is currently a 2022 One Young World Ambassador, having won the Novartis Reimagining Healthcare Scholarship. He’s a member of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust Network and a 2020 Yunus & Youth Fellow.
Social Media Handles– IG & Twitter – @patrickfynn
Precious Bonsu – Founder, CEO Whale Learning Group
German-born Ghanaian educationist, Precious Bonsu, Founder / CEO of Whale Learning Group is a gifted and celebrated teacher, Teaching and learning expert, communication consultant, publisher, author, and serial entrepreneur. The self-motivated, inspirational, and highly driven young female has a knack for innovation and creativity. Bonsu is currently CEO and editor-in-chief of Treasure Kids Newspaper, a monthly newspaper available in both print and online for young people which she founded in November 2016.
In 2019, she incorporated Whale Learning Group – an education and communications service provider with an impressive portfolio of companies and initiatives like Treasure Kids Books and Media, GT Scholars, Whale Communications, Office Mate Gh Ltd, and The WIT Schools (Ghana’s most innovative and progressive Christian school based in Accra — www.thewitschool.com).
Social Media Handles Instagram: @theglobalteacher_ Facebook: Precious K. Bonsu YouTube: YouTube.com/preciousbonsu1 Twitter: @preciousbonsu LinkedIn: Precious Bons
Stefania Manfreda – Founder, Creative Lead & Curator Lokko House
Stefania Manfreda is the founder, creative lead, and curator of Lokko House, a contemporary Ghanaian design brand that emerged in 2008 to showcase the very best of Accra’s Street style and culture. Launching with Lokko’08 and then rebranding to Lokko House in 2018 (the city’s first urban concept store), she brought her vision of a fresh, authentically Ghanaian fashion and lifestyle hub to life and has since crafted a home for modern African brands. Lokko House currently encapsulates various distinct creative experiences: the eponymous Lokko House concept store; the Elle Lokko ‘Tropics & Modern’ women’s concept store; The Container [Accra], an art-focused exhibition space in partnership with the private members club Front/Back as well as GEL (Gallery Elle Lokko) also in partnership with Open House Studio Accra.
Social Media Handles Instagram and Twitter: @lokkohouse
