Afua Adom

Keynote Speaker

Afua Adom's Biography

Opinionated, charismatic and provocative - Afua Adom is one of the leading voices on di-versity in Britain. Afua regularly appears on ITV’s This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Jeremy Vine on Channel 5, the BBC, Sky and CNN, as well as STV, Yanga! TV, TalkRadio and LBC.

A passionate and experienced journalist, Afua hosted the TV show “Sustainable Energy” for CNBC, wrote a column for The Voice Newspaper and was Editor-in-Chief for Glam Afri-ca Magazine.

Afua moved to London from Glasgow aged 17 to study journalism at City University. After specialising in broadcast and music, she found herself working at T4 and PopWorld before moving on to the dizzy heights of 60 Minute Makeover on ITV.

She grew bored of decorating strangers' homes in an hour or under and made the leap to music publishing where she worked for Blue Mountain Music under the watchful and leg-endary eye of Chris Blackwell.

Following her passion as a writer, Afua landed a job at Blackhair as Editorial Assistant, ris-ing to be Editor after only a year. She became the Features Editor for Pride magazine and a Producer and Anchor for Arise News. After switching to ABN TV, she produced and pre-sented the popular show Young & Rising and launched Entertainment Weekly.

Afua is a great supporter of the UK and international music scene, especially in the world of Afrobeats and was the host of The A-List on The Beat 103.6FM.

Afua is a brilliant keynote speaker covering issues such as Diversity, Black Lives Matter and Equality for Women and continues to work as an Event Host and Moderator.

Afua lives and works in London. In her spare time, she likes to make up dance routines with her daughter, have manicures and read crime novels.