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Elsa Majimbo, Ayo Edebiri & Ham Serunjogi Made the 2023 Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ List

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Every year, Forbes Magazine releases its “30 Under 30” 2022 list, which features trailblazers that cut across all industries and span from the United States of America down to Africa. The list highlights revolutionaries and innovators who are changing the world in the areas of media, art & style, food & drink, education, science, music, sports, healthcare, and a number of other industries.

To compile this year’s list, Forbes writers and editors evaluated more than 12,000 candidates on factors including funding, revenue, social impact, inventiveness, and potential. The 600 who made the cut are both an inspiration and a challenge to conventional wisdom.

Below is the list of Africans and people of African descent who are doing extraordinary things in the world:

Art & Style

Nigerian-Canadian creative director Josef Adamu made headlines with his live photography exhibition ”The Hair Appointment” in 2018, which celebrated Black braiding salons. It was viewed more than one million times and earned praise from Ava Duvernay, Tracee Ellis Ross, Vogue, Essence, and more. Since then, he’s spearheaded Nike’s Yardrunners campaign, which celebrates HBCUs, and produced shows alongside Kevin Durant and Tina Knowles.

  • Flo Ngala (27, Photographer)

Hollywood & Entertainment

  • Ayo Edebiri (27, Actor)
  • Eni Akintade (28, Motion Picture Literary Agent, United Talent Agency)

Retail & Ecommerce

  • Kimiloluwa Fafowora (26, Founder of Gander)

As a Harvard undergrad, Kimiloluwa Fafowora helped the admissions office recruit more diverse students. Now she runs Gander, which works with brands to display user-generated videos on their websites so shoppers can visualize products used by a variety of people in real life. The company has raised $4.2 million in funding from Harlem Capital, Crossbeam Venture Partners and others.

Healthcare

Sports

Marketing & Advertising

  • Chidera Ufondu (29, Creative Lead for Brand Partnerships, Netflix)

Social Media

Social Impact

Enterprise Technology

Food & Drink

Education

Finance

Games

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