“I am a storyteller – helping to build a generation of fearless Africans by telling them new, better stories about reality and the future.”
About Chude Jideonwo
Chude Jideonwo is host and director of #WithChude – the viral talk show and podcast speaking to Africa’s most compelling celebrities and leaders about the mind, the heart, and the spirit. He is also chief executive of the media-tech streaming platform withchude.com, dedicated to viral documentaries and factual films from
Africa. His first film ‘Awaiting Trial’ was honoured for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Africa International Film Festival and the Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards.
He co-founded media group RED | For Africa and human flourishing company Joy, Inc. RED has worked on national elections and social movements in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Senegal, and Joy, Inc. has worked with organisations from the Ford Motor Company to the Lagos State Government on building safe, warm spaces across business, government, and culture.
He has been a Forbes 30 under 30 honouree, a CNBC Young Business Leader of the Year winner, an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, and a World Fellow at Yale University – and and has been board member at Microsoft 4Afrika, the Oando Foundation and The Initiative for Equal Rights, which board he chairs.
His writing and work have been featured on the New York Times, the Guardian, the BBC, CNN, Aljazeera, the Huffington Post and the Financial Times, he is author of two books, ‘Are We The Turning Point Generation?’ and ‘How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump’ and has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Pan Atlantic University.
Jideonwo advises and consults for non profits and corporations across the world on the media and storytelling, democracy and human rights – including Meta, Google, Gates Foundation, the Africa Union, the British Government and the United States Government. In 2024, he was appointed the first Creative-In-Residence at the London School of Economics.
“Do the work. Do it well. Do your very best, no more, no less.
Then let go of the outcome. You have done your part. Let the universe do its part.
Anything less is fear. Anything more is also fear.”