YouTube Announces The Africans Awardees For Their #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund

Last year, YouTube announced their first class of 133 creators and artists from around the world for their #YouTubeBlack Voices. It included musicians, beauty entrepreneurs, comedians, activists, poets, personal trainers and more.
Building on that momentum today, they have introduced to the 26 #YouTubeBlack Voices creator grantees from Africa in 2022, which include everything from bakers, vloggers, animators, business owners to film-makers and more.
Adaeze
Nigeria
Adaeze Jideonwo is a wife, mom of three girls and a content creator.
In 2015, she resigned from her banking job to be a stay-home mom/housewife, and for a while, she longed for an avenue to show the world what she's passionate about. She started her Adaeze's Space in 2019
Angel Lately
Kenya
Angel Lately is Wendy Angel Nangayo is a female creator, who speaks about all of the things she finds beautiful ? whether that is writing, food, places, people or experiences.
Cheyenne
Kenya
Cheyenne Muvunyi is a content creator and entrepreneur of Kenyan and Rwandan origin. She's been self-employed since graduating university and also runs her YouTube channel, cheymuv.
Nigeria
The Critics Company is an award-winning multimedia company with the aim of creating magical experiences through the art of filmmaking. Founded in 2015 by a group of teenagers, Critics Company desires to make a difference in the Nigerian movie-scene. This led the company to make its own sci-fi films with smartphones and basic DIY equipment.
Defining
South Africa
Creators Dennis Ngango, Bongani Baloyi and Nomathamsanqa Plaatjie are on a mission to unleash the potential of Africa?s youth through compelling, creative and impactful storytelling. They produce high-quality videos that ignite conversation and showcase the many ways in which Millennial and Gen Z Africans seek meaning, identify, connection, love, truth, freedom and purpose.
Nigeria
Fisayo Fosudo's channel has weekly videos on tech and finance for Africa and the world. Fisayo is a visual storyteller, finance and technology video producer with nearly 200,000 subscribers.
Hungani and Stephanie Ndlovu
South Africa