Elumelu, two other Africans in omnibus edition of African Voices

Our Reporter

One of Nigeria’s best known bankers, Anthony Elumelu, is featured in an omnibus edition of the television magazine, CNN African Voices, airing this weekend.

Two Kenyans will also be celebrated in this edition. CNN International introduced the compilation show when the television station started a new series of the flagship programme with a new tagline, Changemakers.

The Kenyans featured in the edition are Elizabeth Njoroge, founder of the Art of Music Foundation who deploys the transformative power of classical music to provoke positive change in the lives of young Kenyans and Peter Tabichi, 37-year-old winner of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize.

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The programme will delve into how Elumelu, now 56, started his career in banking; how his courage and confidence earned him his first job as a salesman at the defunct All States Trust Bank after getting his Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Lagos.

The programme tells the story of how he rose through the ranks and eventually  became the chairman of United Bank for Africa, Heirs Holdings and Transcorp and how he founded The Tony Elumelu Foundation in 2010 as a major philanthropist in Africa championing the cause of entrepreneurship and sponsoring outstanding entrepreneurs across the continent.

Njoroge, a graduate of Strathclyde University, UK, returned to her country home where she founded the Art of Music Foundation. She had earlier bagged a degree in Pharmacy in 1994, and before that, a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry in 1989 from the McMaster University in Canada upon the completion of her Pharmacy degree in 1997.

Njoroge runs the National Youth Orchestra of Kenya (KNYO) which serves as a rallying point for the musically gifted youth from all parts of the country. She uses the transformative power of classical music to stimulate noticeable change in the lives of young Kenyans, especially those in the rural parts of her country.

The third guest, Tabichi, is a science teacher and Franciscan friar at the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School which boasts of just one computer, intermittent access to the internet and a student-teacher ratio of 58:1.