Celebrating Ndi-Igbo

  Dr Ebere Okereke is a public health physician with over 25 years’ experience practice in many countries and expertise in epidemiology and communicable disease control. She is also a Fellow of the UK faculty of public health and has been nominated as a role model for women in academic medicine by the British Medical Association. Ebere is currently a Senior Technical Adviser at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Prior to her current role, she led the Public Health England's project to strengthen capabilities for compliance with International Health Regulations in low- and middle-income countries. She has a particular interest in capacity development and training Ebere holds a Bachelor of Surgery and medicine degree from the university of Nigeria, Nsukka. She holds a postgraduate diploma in tropical medicine from the Liverpool school of tropical medicine as well as an MSc in public health from Newcastle university.  She also undertook a postgraduate professional course...

  Kosisochukwu 'Kay' Ugwuede is a nonfiction writer, tech journalist and photographer living in Lagos, Nigeria. Whether writing about books, culture, food, politics, religion or travel, Kay's work explores the intimacies of human interaction and questions the intangibles that drive our actions big and small. Her writing has been exhibited in Bamako, Cologne and Dhaka as part of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organization's road trip projects. She is the author of A Substance of Things Unseen, a travel chapbook published by the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organization. As a tech journalist, Kay covers technology development across Africa paying particular attention to the small way technology is impacting and changing the way we live, work and interact. She is also adept at profiling players in the space in an insightful manner that explores their journey in the industry while providing valuable insights about the broader sectors within w...

Uche Uzorka is a mixed media artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Uzorka was born in 1974 in Delta State, Nigeria, and graduated in 2001 from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, majoring in painting. Uzorka’s practice incorporates painting, collage, cutting and pasting, charcoal, and ink drawing in an examination of processes of urban street culture. Uzorka won First Place in the National Art Competition in 2011 for his collaboration with artist Chike Obeagu.

One to Watch MIT graduate student Chidube Ezeozue is a first class electrical engineering graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is currently pursuing dual master’s degrees in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and in electrical engineering and computer science. Frustrated by his nation’s erratic electrical grid, Chidube created an app, with his brother, that crowdsources information about Nigerian power outages. With the app, called NepaSituation, people living in Nigeria can report outages. This data, when merged into an algorithm developed by Ezeozue, can help Nigerians predict when power outages may strike their neighborhoods, and how long those outages might last. After graduating from MIT in June, Ezeozue will remain in Cambridge, working as a software engineer for Google. Read More: MITNews - Power to the people BellaNaija - BN Trailblazers & Tastemakers (Full Interview) Sources: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Bella Naija

Dr Ike Anya is currently Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Inner North West London PCTs (NHS Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea) and honorary lecturer in public health at Imperial College. He leads on health protection and emergency planning, safeguarding children and support to clinical commissioning groups. Qualified at the University of Nigeria in 1995 and holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RCP UK 2002), MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health with distinction (2002) and MSc in Public Health (2004) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Specialist training in public health medicine included rotations at Bristol Primary Care Trust, the Health Protection Agency and University College London. Admitted to the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) in April 2009. Ike has taught at the London School of Hygiene, Imperial College, University College London, the University of the West of England and B...