The 11th edition of The Future Awards Africa #TFAA2016 held yesterday in Lagos.

The Young Person of the Year award was won by Mark Okoye.

See the full list and profiles of TFAA winners below:

Somkele Iyamah- Idhalama, 28

Winner, The Future Awards Africa and EbonyLife Prize for Acting

Somkele Iyamah-Idhalama is the face, future of a new Nollywood. She was recognised as a Rising Star by the Toronto International Film Festival for her role in 93 Days. She was arguably the heart and the soul of the heart breaking film that retells the story of how Nigeria overcame Ebola. For the role, she has been nominated for an Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also a winner of the Africa International Film Festival Special Jury Award, a high honour, for an actress whose filmography is well shy of the length of those she overcame to claim the award. She has appeared in almost every major production to be released in 2016: ‘The Wedding Party’, ‘The Arbitration’ and ‘The Department’.

Adebayo Oke-Lawal, 26

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Fashion

Not many independent Nigerian designers can claim to have been invited to show at two international fashion weeks, and not many Nigerian designers are Adebayo Oke-Lawal. To be fair, no one is Oke-Lawal. He truly proved this to be the case in the past year. The strength of his designs saw him represent Nigeria alongside four other indigenous labels at the 2015 International Fashion Showcase in London, after which he was invited to show at the world’s leading menswear show: 88th Pitti Uomo under the umbrella of the Constellation Africa project. He rounded out last year with a nomination for the coveted Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Prize for innovative design. He continued this streak of international acclaim by debuting his Spring and Fall 2016 collections at the inaugural and second South Africa Menswear Weeks, and has become a regular there. 2016’s biggest honour came when Oke-Lawal’s Orange Culture was invited to show at the prestigious London Collections: Men, the first African designer to be accorded this honour. He is the face and future of a nascent African fashion industry.

Theodora Mogo, 24

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Beauty

It is impossible to talk about the rise of the new wave of beauty in Nigeria without referencing Theodora Mogo. Mogo’s rise through the ranks is even more impressive considering she is self-taught and began her business offering free make up services to her friends and family. In four short years, that humble rolodex has grown to include renowned celebrities like Toke Makinwa, Eku Edewor, Victoria Kimani and Osas Ajibade. In 2016, Mogo expanded her empire, introducing the ‘Beat by Doranne’ master class series, a service that grown to include sessions in Ghana in partnership with Sparkle and Shine and The Beauty Technicians, some of the country’s finest professionals. Partnerships with international brands like Guerlain Paris, Phillips, Vane, BeautyRevNG and Hair by Ucan speaks to Mogo’s growing influence both as an individual and a brand and she uses this influence as a force for good, through awareness campaigns for breast cancer and women led SME’s at the COPE Foundation and WIMBIZ

YEMI ALADE, 27

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Music 2016

It takes guts to lay claim to the title ‘Mama Africa’ and Yemi Alade, Nigerian performing artist has that in spades. Starting her career in 2005 as part of Noty Spices, an all-girl group, Yemi Alade went solo, won the inaugural edition of the Peak Talent show and got signed to two labels, wresting control of her career with 2014’s stellar King of Queens, spearheaded by the runaway success of Johnny, the album’s first single. After unmitigated success through a series of thought out foreign language cross overs, Yemi Alade put out ‘Mama Africa’ her sophomore album and a joust for the title of most influential female musician in Africa.

Dr. Salihu Dansuki, 29

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Professional Service

He is the youngest Ph.D holder in Northern Nigeria, having attained the degree at the age of 24. He is in the business of teaching and empowering a generation in his position as Assistant Professor, American University of Nigeria, Africa’s premier development university. His area of concern is Information Systems; having supervised over 15 undergraduate dissertation, 5 Masters Dissertation and currently supervising three PhD students. Not satisfied with impacting the young within university walls, he pursues community development initiatives as well  aimed at promoting mutual understanding and confidence building between 1000 Northern Nigerian Youths, the Police and the Security Agencies of the government in North Eastern Nigeria, specifically, Yola, Adamawa State.

Ifeanyi Orajaka, 28

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Business 2016 | Endowed by Bank of Industry

Of Nigeria’s challenges, none is as crippling and ednuring as the lack of power. Helping to solve this mammoth problem is Ifeanyi Orajaka, a social entrepreneur and engineer. Ifeanyi seeks to bridge the supply and distribution chasm that kept many Nigerians disconnected from power through his company, GVE Projects. He has worked in collaboration with US Power Africa Initiative, IEEE, USADF, USAID, GE, DFID, GIZ, Bank of Industry Nigeria, Deloitte, amongst others. His projects have resulted in the creation of cumulative capacity of 500kW, generated 1GWhrs of clean, reliable and affordable electricity impacting 1320 households. His projects have also created 500 jobs, trained 260 young people and created N16 million in wealth for the communities worked in.

Kehinde Paul

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize in Sports

The Paralympics were a proving ground for many Nigerian paralympic athletes, often ignored or underfunded in favour of athletes in flashy sports like football and basketball. But Kehinde Paul, Nigerian power-lifter, already an Olympic record holder with his most recent win just two years ago at the Commonwealth games, took yet another opportunity to demand Nigeria’s attention. He dominated the -65kg category at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, winning the gold medal and helping Nigeria place impressively at the games.

He won Gold in Commonwealth games in Glasgow London, won Gold in 2015 IPC powerlifting Asian Open Championship in the Republic of KAZAKHSTAN. Paul also won GOLD in All African games held in Congo Brazzaville 2015 He also won GOLD in 2016 IPC Powerlifting World Cup Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Consistent, excellent and a world record holder, that’s the kind of role model we’re in the business for.

Godwin Benson, 27

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Education 2016 | Endowed by University of Sussex

He is the founder of Tuteria, an innovative tutoring solution that matches tutors and potential students using an online platform that allows students seek out potential tutors and schedule lessons based on their personal preferences and needs, and opening tutoring to full time and part time tutors. He was one of the top 30 finalists of the Aso Villa Demo Day event held in Abuja where he met with the Presidency, and with Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg who both applauded Tuteria’s contribution to education. He emerged a winner of Facebook’s Internet.org Africa Innovation Challenge in Education, as well as a recipient of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Award 2016. He was also a winner of the prestigious Innovation Prize for Africa, 2016 as one of the top 10 most innovative ideas in Africa by the Africa Innovation Foundation held in Botswana, as well as the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2016 by the Royal Academy, United Kingdom held in London. Before building Tuteria, he founded Transtudent World where he shared academic insights with thousands of students from more than 19 countries, and also authored two eBooks on “How to Study for Exams Without Stress, Fear or Failure” and “How to Get a Job Without Applying Like Everyone Else” which are both widely read by thousands of students and graduates across Africa.

Abiola Olaniran, 27

Winner, The Future Awards Africa Prize for Technology 2016 | Endowed by Intel

Listed in Forbes Africa’s 2015 ‘30 Under 30’ Power List, Olaniran, a former Google Ambassador found Gamsole, a Nigerian-born mobile game production company that creates games inspired by Nigerian history & cultural characters. The company’s first full prototype game to reach mass audiences, Gidi Run, a play on the Olopa scenario, has hit a staggering 9 million downloads on the Windows phone playstore. Gamsole also creates games for Android and Java platforms and they have been downloaded over 15 million times on all platforms. The company has also attracted seed funding specifically from Kenyan fund 88mph; who offered venture backing that has now made Olaniran, Nigeria’s highest paid game developer.

Tosin Ajibade, 29

Winner, The Future Awards Africa and EbonyLife Prize for New Media 2016

If it concerns new media, Tosin Ajibade is on top of it, literally. Through the lifestyle and entertainment website, Olorisupergal.com which Ajibade founded in 2008, Tosin breaks the news and offers much needed perspective on pop culture and happenings. But Olorisupergal has transcended the restrictive web formats and flourished on all the new media platforms, especially Instagram and Facebook, reaching thousands through a relentless feed of freshly gleaned information and opinions.  Ajibade uses her influence at home too, convening the inaugural New Media Conference to discuss the challenges and possibilities of doing business and creating sustainable brands through new media platforms. Ajibade also uses her reach to promote causes close to her, including gender equality, embrace of natural hair and sexual assault.