The Future Awards Africa [TFAA] has unveiled the list of its finalists for the 2014 edition of the awards.

The Future Awards Africa [TFAA] has unveiled the list of its finalists for the 2014 edition of the awards. The finalists have been selected from the pool of outstanding individuals across various disciplines and nominated from all over Africa for this season of the awards - and have been assessed through a four-month process supervised by the Central Working Committee, Board of Judges and Independent Audit Committee.

"We are delighted to announce the finalists for this year's awards. It was a painstaking process but we are happy that the quality of nominations keep rising each year," said Elikem Nutifafa, who is a member of the Indepedent Audit Committee.

"These are the brightest stars of Africa's today, and future," he added.

The complete list of finalists is below:

TFAA Prize in Technology 
Jamilia Abass,
Linda Kwamboka & Susan Oguya (Kenya)
Mark Essien (Nigeria)
Joshua Okello (Kenya)

TFAA Prize in Community Action 
Jake Okechukwu (Nigeria)
Nixon Ochatre (Uganda)
Tricia Ikponmwonba (Nigeria)

TFAA Prize in Public Service 
Lukman Jaji (Nigeria)
Okwuone Nkechi (Nigeria)
Ahmed Salihijo (Nigeria)

TFAA Prize in Advocacy 
Kennedy Odede (Kenya)
Boniface Mwangi (Kenya)
Abdikadir Aden Hassan (Kenya)

TFAA Prize in Enterprise Support 
Sanga Moses (Uganda)
Bunmi Otegbade (Nigeria)
Justin Stanford (South Africa)

TFAA Prize in Entertainment 
Panshak ‘Ice Prince’ Zamani (Nigeria)
Michael Kwesi ‘Sarkodie’ Owusu (Ghana)
Nasibu Adul ‘Diamond’ Juma (Tanzania)

TFAA Prize in Agriculture 
Olawale Isaiah Ojo (Nigeria)
Charles Nichols and Samir Ibrahim (Kenya)
Nasir Yammama (Nigeria)

The Tony O. Elumelu Prize in Business 
Eseoghene Odiete (Nigeria)
Ally Edha Awadh (Tanzania)
Andrew Mupuya (Uganda)

TFAA Prize in Education 
Regina Agyare (Ghana)
Obanor Chukwuwezam & Ogunlana Olumide (Nigeria)
Philip Obaji Jr (Nigeria)

TFAA Prize for Young Person of the Year 
Kayode Disu (Nigeria)
Joel Mwale (Kenya)
Sangu Delle (Ghana)
Alengot Oromait (Uganda)
David Adedeji ‘Davido’ Adeleke (Nigeria)

The Winners will be announced at an exclusive ceremoney in Lagos, Nigeria on the 7th of December, 2014.

This is the 9th edition of the awards, which became an African prize lastyear, with a commemorative ceremony hosted by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Aso Rock, Abuja.

“We are thrilled to have the awards return to Lagos where it all started,” said Ohimai Atafo, Chair of the CWC and one of Africa’s leading fashion entrepreneurs. “TFAA has always been excited to fuse inspiration with the best of pop culture, and this year’s event will underline that tradition – an
evening of inspiration, of hope, and of a continent renewed.”

This year’s event is also dedicated to the cause of fighting Ebola in West Africa.  “We are answering to that call to action,” said Mfon Ekpo, Vice-Chair of the CWC and West Africa Representative on the Mandela Washington Fellowship Advisory Board. “If Africa will be saved by Africans, then young people need to take the lead on the problems we face and take ownership
in the solutions we need.”

Ebola cases are doubling every 20 days in the worst affected countries, and the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called it “the largest, most complex and most severe we’ve ever seen”.
TFAA will be deploying its network of winners, nominees, alumni, celebrity, brain trust and continental media partners for this #StopEbola campaign – to get 1 million young Africans to donate social media updates and then for young people to donate a minimum of $25 (4,250naira) each directly to the WHO through the United Nations Ebola Response Fund. It has also selected 50 of Africa’s most influential celebrities to headline the campaign.

The Future Awards Africa 2014 is presented in partnership with Microsoft, the Tony Elumelu Foundation and Vitafoam. Official Media Partners are EbonyLife TV, AfricaMagic, Ventures Africa, and Y! Africa.

Official Online Partners are MemeBurn, BellaNaija, Premium Times and 360nobs.

The official bloggers for 2014 are LindaIkeji, Omojuwa, LadunLiadi, Scanty Gela BLOG, Olorisupergal, Ameyaw, NigeriaNewsDesk and GidiTraffic.

Country partners are Silverbird TV, HipTV, The Cable, LadunLiadi, The Trent, Information
Nigeria, News Wire Nigeria and Pulse.ng.

Cool FM is the host radio station.
Channels Television is the host TV station.

For more information, visit @TFAAfrica on Twitter and Instagram or the
website www.thefutureafrica.com/awards.

The official hashtags for the 2014 awards are #TheFutureAwardsAfrica and #TheFutureAwards2014.

All the information on the #StopEbola global campaign for young Africans is on www.stopebola.com.