Talk show host, Mo Abudu has emerged Forbes Africa’s Most Successful Woman of The Year.
The title was bestowed on her on January 1, 2015 after a lengthy but interesting chat with Forbes’ Contributing writer, Mfonobong Nsehe.
“Africa’s Most Successful Women introduces you to the most outstanding African women who are making giant strides in business, politics, technology, entrepreneurship and leadership on the continent and elsewhere around the world,” he wrote.
Mo Abudu, a 50-year-old Nigerian media entrepreneur and talk show host, is the founder of Ebony Life TV, a fast-growing black African multi-broadcast entertainment network, which showcases informative and entertaining programmes that portray Africa at its best.
When asked why she decided to go into the talkshow business she said;
“My passion to help change the narrative about Africa began to grow as far back as when I was a teenager living in the UK, schooling in Tunbridge Wells in Kent, a town that had just a few blacks at the time.
As I have said many times in the past, here, I had to learn to stand up for myself, to defend my identity and my race in an environment where you continually got asked the most ridiculous and mind-boggling questions like “Do you guys live in trees and holes in Africa?” “Do you guys dance around fires?” “What do you eat for breakfast?”
“Very ignorant questions. Those sort of questions could either make or break your spirit but I was very determined that I was going to stay strong.”
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