Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Law Student & Writer.
Faith Nwani
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“Entrepreneurial Leadership doesn’t mean they are teaching you how to be a leading businessman. They showed me the true…
Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Law Student & Writer.
Faith Nwani
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“Entrepreneurial Leadership doesn’t mean they are teaching you how to be a leading businessman. They showed me the true…
Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Student & Entrepreneur.
Marvelous Ajala
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“Leaving camp, one of the things that kept lingering in my mind was; how do we help more people know…
Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Student & Entrepreneur.
Mary Oni
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“..there are 1001 broken shards of events in our lives but there is one that seems to leave an indelible mark…
Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Student, Social Innovator & Founder
Tobiloba Olanipekun
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“If I can learn like this within 14 days, and work with like-minds to proffer need-based solutions to…
Editor: Daniel Alumona
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Storyteller. Podcaster. Student
Martins Charles
TBP Entry Year: 2021
“I had walked in that day with one constant thought in my head, “How’s this program valued at $1,000…
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Digital Artist & Filmmaker
Tega Oghenechovwe
TBP Entry Year: 2019
“When I got into the Afara network and TBP in 2019, I met lots of people; creatives and non-creatives…
Program Manager, Global Peer Collaboration
Medical Researcher & Entrepreneur
Victor Ojo Oluwaseun
TBP Entry Year: 2019
“Being in a network filled with people doing great things, I had no choice but to push myself…
By Oluwasayomipe Osasona
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Of all the definitions of leadership I have come across, this definition is the one that appeals to me most. Why? Because this definition completely describes what’s in my head anytime I imagine…
By Gloria Iyke
Leadership for me, can be broken down into two words; LEADER and SHIP. A leader is someone who is designed and appointed to direct a group of people to achieve a set goal. In a particular context, I would want to say a ship can be described as a structure carrying opinions…
By Benjamin Yesufu
I have thought of myself as a leader for as long as I can remember. Growing up as the eldest of three sons, I learnt at a young age that leadership meant responsibility. I knew that a leader had to take decisions for others, and that a leader would be answerable for…
Vinayak Mahbubani joined The Afara Initiative in July 2021 as Chief of Staff. Having built his career in investment banking, he joins our team to drive and support key strategic initiatives, including a specific focus on our for-profit endeavours around funding transitions and investing in ventures that accelerate our work.
At Deutsche Bank, he was part of the Europe Prime Finance desk responsible for carrying out risk and pricing analysis for hedge fund clients. More recently, he worked with DC Advisory India, advising clients on fundraising and M&A transactions in the Technology (Education, Logistics, Marketplace) and Industrials group.
Vinayak holds an M.Sc in Economics and a minor in Mathematics, and he has successfully passed all three levels of the CFA examinations. He served as President for AIESEC in IIT Kharagpur (India) in 2016 and has served in a consulting capacity to various non-profits across India.
Adejoke is the co-founder of the Bridge Program (the flagship program of The Afara Initiative) and lead creative at BDS.
Adejoke is passionate about national and international development and currently leads an indigenous brand challenging the reliance on imported products and creating superior products that can compete in international markets. She is an astute commercial lawyer and general counsel, with two decades of broad-based and cross-geographical experience. She has worked in both the public and private sectors, leading the management and delivery of legal services across multiple projects and companies in West Africa.
Adejoke holds an LLB from the University of Warwick, an LLM in International Business Law from the London School of Economics and is admitted to the Nigerian Bar.