{"id":91595,"date":"2015-02-14T18:41:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=91595"},"modified":"2015-02-14T18:46:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T18:46:55","slug":"tedx-accra-speaker-profile-meet-isaac-babu-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=91595","title":{"rendered":"TEDx Accra speaker profile: Meet Isaac Babu- Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Named by Forbes Magazine as one of \u201cAfrica\u2019s Best Young Entrepreneurs\u201d under the age of 30, Isaac O. Babu-Boateng is an ambitious entrepreneur and one of the leading voices of the pan-African millennial generation.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OlUhtlXSbFxsN68oJi4GuolvUIX9ZUIK&#8221;]He is the founder and CEO of BABU Group, a pan-African conglomerate with interests and investments in media, technology, real estate, music and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>With an ambition matched only by a grandeur vision, Babu-Boateng is at the forefront of the mission for this generation of Africans to control the image of Africa and the rest of the world\u2019s perception.<\/p>\n<p>Babu-Boateng\u2019s strong leadership and vision enabled him to establish Face2face Africa as one of the pan-African community\u2019s leading voices, perpetrating the stories of success, hope, and promise that is untold about Africa in western media.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Face2face Africa is a multi-niche media company that has created several platforms to engage the pan-African community, including the annual Pan-African Weekend held in NYC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why you should listen to his talk?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a young African boy taking a shot at the American dream, I lost track of the African dream.<\/p>\n<p>For a very long time, the world\u2019s portrayal of Africa caused my disconnection with the continent, but I later on realized that I had the capacity to be apart of the answer and help change the story of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This generation of young Africans to me represent the best. There are indefinite possibilities when we begin to see ourselves as the solution to Africa\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>My vision is to build Africa-focused media powerhouse owned and operated by Africans that will control our stories and mitigate Africa\u2019s representation by the rest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote from Isaac:<\/strong> \u201cChange does not come in a day, in a year, it may not even come in a decade. Change only comes with progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaac on Social Media:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook:<\/strong> www.facebook.com\/kojobabu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter:<\/strong> twitter.com\/kojobabu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram:<\/strong> Kojobabu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> babugroup.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> Ibb@babugroup.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Named by Forbes Magazine as one of \u201cAfrica\u2019s Best Young Entrepreneurs\u201d under the age of 30, Isaac O. Babu-Boateng is an ambitious entrepreneur and one of the leading voices of the pan-African millennial generation. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OlUhtlXSbFxsN68oJi4GuolvUIX9ZUIK&#8221;]He is the founder and CEO of BABU Group, a pan-African conglomerate with interests and investments in media, technology, real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,33],"class_list":["post-91595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}