In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the fifteenth edition of The Future Awards Africa(TFAA) would be pioneering a near-complete pivot to virtual platforms. The iconic event will be hosting many of the now-familiar beats on its journey to the culminating award ceremony via The Future Awards Africa Instagram handle while maintaining the physical presence of the award itself. The virtual activities will be carried out with multiple interfaces with other Future Project associated social media platforms.
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In anticipation of the main event, some announcements were made on Monday, May 25 by Adebola Williams, CEO Red For Africa. These announcements, which are integral to The Future Awards Africa event structure, introduced the public to the season hosts and made public some of the new projects The Future Project plans to embark on.Through an Instagram live hosted by Adebola Williams on The Future Awards Instagram account, guests showed their support to the initiative and celebrated the Africa-wide focus of the awards this year. After announcing this season’s theme “The Convocation”, the hosts for this year’s events were announced. Multimedia presenter/ influencer, as well as past season host Taymesan Emmanuel and acclaimed media personality, Vimbai Mutinhiri were declared as season’s hosts of the fifteenth edition of the Future Awards Africa.During the Instagram live, The Future Awards Africa also announced the launching of Beating Corona Heroes & Champions project, which is set to be a TV and Digital Telethon. It would kick off on Sunday, July 12 2020. The call for nominations for Beating Corona Heroes across Africa is aimed at spotlighting unsung heroes at the frontline during this pandemic.
The Future Awards Africa is a series of awards that celebrate young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made outstanding achievements in the year under consideration. Forbes has described the awards as “Nigeria’s most important awards for outstanding young Nigerians”. The idea was conceived by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams in 2005.
