Recently updated on February 12th, 2023 at 12:19 pm
Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam has been named one of 100 Brightest Young Minds in Africa 2017 by Brightest Young Minds (BYM).
Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam, a second-year doctoral student at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town. After a rigorous selection process, Mr. Chikezie was selected based on his past academic and social innovation works and resume.
Brightest Young Minds (BYM) headquartered in South Africa identifies, connects and mobilises Africa’s most innovative and responsible young people, and gathers them from around the continent to train, mentor and empower them to become change agents as next generation of African leaders in their various spheres of endeavour.
Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam joined other outstanding young people within the ages of 25 and 35 from up to 17 African countries on a funded summit to engage on issues around social innovation, technology, big data, social entrepreneurship, business financing, project development and model building to mention a few.
On his participation at the summit, Chikezie Emmanuel Uzuegbunam stated:
“It has been an incredible time so far at the summit of Africa’s Brightest Young Minds. Having been to mostly academic conferences and events in the past, this is a whole new, different and amazing experience for me as a young person on the continent. It is making me come up with better social innovation ideas that would impact society aside from the academic research that I have been engaged with, providing new ways of thinking about making impact with my work and passions.
I am grateful to have been selected and invited into this very competitive space and my gratitude goes to BYM for the opportunity. I feel ever more challenged and exposed to varirty of new and never-heard-of-before resources to launch me into the next level as an impactful young leader on the continent.”
