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Meet the growing global network of visionary change-makers reimagining the future for Africa and the world.
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The Ijeruka community is a global network of 1400+ business and nonprofit leaders, thinkers, activists, creatives, and healers with diverse wisdom and expertise.
Our members span diverse sectors and geographies, from emerging visionaries to seasoned leaders in governance, technology, media, health, and more, but they share a common mission: to create a life-affirming future rooted in dignity, equity and hope. They believe that true change starts from within and radiates outward into the systems and stories we create. They are building businesses that prioritise people and the planet. They are social architects crafting systems, spaces, and stories that heal and inspire. They know that the future of our countries and communities is ours to shape—and they are determined to act.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Whether you’re an individual or part of a mission-driven organisation, Ijeruka welcomes anyone that's driven to solve problems and create a positive impact. This is a space for those who embrace the complexity of our interconnected world and who are ready to lead from the intersections of systems, stories, and spirit.
Keren Lasme
Literary Curator
Ivory Coast
Interdisciplinary artist, writer, and literary curator. With a foundation in African Studies from SOAS University of London, Keren merges mythopoetic identity with the transformative power of reading. She envisions learning spaces as portals to freedom, healing, and societal reimagination, intertwining education, care politics, and African literature as praxis..
Ehime Ora
African Scholar & Priestess
Nigeria
As a multi-hyphenated African scholar, priestess, and creative, Ehime Ora equips others with necessary tools to promote personal alignment and generational healing. Through African philosophy, artistic curation, and ancestral technology, she facilitates radical community joy and development.
Oluwaseun Babalola
Filmmaker
Nigeria
Oluwaseun Babalola is an award-winning director, 2x Emmy-nominated producer, exhibited photographer, nonprofit founder/executive director, and a community organizer with over a decade of travel, film, event, and television expertise in 20+ countries.
Laurence Sessou
Artist Muse and Bodywork Therapist
Benin Republic
Laurence Sessou is a bodywork therapist, aromatherapist and an artist muse, with roots from the Republic of Benin, and has been practising for over 14 years. She is founder of Azoouiwa, a platform that champions the work of women activists, healers and creatives
Hakima Abbas
Political Scientist & Activist
Africa
Hakima Abbas, is a lifelong liberation activist who has been at the forefront of African and global activism for over two decades. She is a co-founder of the Black Feminist Fund and former Executive Director of the Association for Women's Rights in Development and Fahamu, a Pan-African support organisation. She was also a co-editor of the "Queer African Reader" and "Pan-Africanism and Feminism" issues of Feminist Africa.
Chika Unigwe
Writer
Nigeria
Chika Unigwe is an award-winning writer and Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia College. Born in Enugu, Nigeria, she is the author of four novels, including On Black Sisters Street and Night Dancer. Her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Guernica, Aeon and many others.
Kukily Afrofeminist Art Collective
Artists
Argentina, Brasil, USA
Kukily is an Afro-feminist artistic collective that creates interdisciplinary works around topics such afro-descendent identity, the place of afro-descendent women in society, and the necessity to express ourselves through art
Dr. Pumla Dineo Gqola
Writer & Academic
South Africa
Pumla Dineo Gqola is a South African academic, writer, and gender activist, best known for her 2015 book Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award. She is a professor of literature at Nelson Mandela University, where she holds the South African Research Chair in African Feminist Imaginations.
We host online and in-person gatherings to bring community members together through collective learning and exploration.
From unconventional themes like Radical Hope, Digital Kinship, and Meeting Our Griots, to courses blending critical inquiry with embodied practices and creative exploration, we create sacred learning spaces where big questions can be asked, assumptions challenged, and purpose rediscovered. Designed by and for people of African descent, our events are deeply nourishing, allowing for authenticity, joy, and intellectual rigour to coexist. Whether virtually or in-person, Ijeruka is a playground of possibilities.
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Exclusive discounts on all online learning programs
Members-only content and programming
Host your own activations through our network
20% discount on select events with our partners
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