AFRICAN ENTERPRISE & DEVELOPMENT

Investor | Operator | Filmmaker

I have always been interested in how power is built: who controls capital, who moves value, who shapes the narrative, and who has the capacity to execute.

Today, that interest drives my work across African industry, investment, global trade, and media. My ambition is to build African-owned businesses that develop resources, manufacture products, connect markets, and create original stories.

I am developing an ecosystem of complementary businesses, each with a distinct role. Through BlackCity Industries, I am building toward mining, manufacturing, industrial development, and physical commodity trading. Through Africa Trade Security (ATS), I help protect capital moving through African commodity transactions through due diligence, market intelligence, counterparty risk assessment, and transaction security. AfriGen is my vehicle for private investment and development. Through OVG, I build media, entertainment, and storytelling ventures—including Africa Business, our platform for African trade, investment, and market intelligence.

I came to this work through media. Over the past two decades, I have built ventures across journalism, entertainment, technology, and original content. My work has reached approximately 20 million views and has included interviews with presidents, heads of state, and senior political figures, with a career spanning the United States, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom.

That journey has taken me from covering the White House and President Obama’s visits to five African countries to launching an SVOD streaming company, developing an AI chatbot, completing Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development, and working on major Hollywood productions alongside leading filmmakers.

These experiences inform how I build. Industry creates productive capacity. Capital determines what gets funded and who owns it. Trade connects that production to markets. Media shapes what people understand. Film expands what they can imagine.

Film and storytelling remain central to my purpose. Creating original work and building productive businesses are both ways of shaping the future—and ensuring Africans have greater ownership of their resources, their opportunities, and their stories.

My focus is increasing African ownership, execution capacity, and global economic power. I operate across industry, capital, and media—using storytelling not merely to explain power, but to build it.

Harvard Business School, Executive MBA (PLD) Graduate 2023-2024.

Tufts University, Fine Arts & Mass Communications BFA 2007-2011