Opening Keynote: The Bright Continent
Invited-Keynote Talks
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Olopade, Dayo
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2016-05-07
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Summary: Dayo Olopade speaks, writes, and works on issues relating to Africa,
technology, media and development. Dayo Olopade is a Nigerian-American
journalist. She began her career at The New Republic, where she covered the
2008 presidential primaries and general election. She covered the first year of
Barack Obama's presidency as Washington correspondent for The Root, and the
second year as a reporter for The Daily Beast. She has been a Fellow at the New
America Foundation, a United Nations Foundation Journalism Fellow, and a
visiting scholar with the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has also appeared in
print and online at The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Democracy, Foreign
Policy, The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In 2010, Dayo moved to Nairobi and over the next two years, traveled through 17
African countries in search of a new narrative for Africa. The end result was a
book that asks the world to reimagine the region's challenges as opportunities
to innovate: The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern
Africa. Dayo has also helped to build a new mobile app for the New York Times:
NYT Now. She also co-founded Kanju Media, a company that empowers short form
video creators across the African Diaspora. It supports individuals through
strategic partnerships, skills development, and connects commercial companies
to Africa's mobile digital youth culture. Dayo holds two degrees from Yale
University: a BA in African Studies and a JD/MBA as a Knight Law and Media
Scholar where she focused on technology policy and the information economy.
