Nigerians based abroad are making the country proud

Didi Akinyelure is the 2016 victor of the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. The grant distinguishes Didi as a future star of African Journalism. Didi will begin a three-month position with the BBC in London toward the end of August. Didi Akinyelure moved on from the University of Nottingham with a 2:1 degree in Chemical Engineering. After graduation, she acknowledged a vocation in the UK money related segment, working in the Asset Management division of real associations, for example, Barclays Wealth. Following five years in the segment, she moved to Nigeria, where she acknowledged a part in the Asset Management division of Investment Bank, Oceanic Capital. Following two years, she exited to begin her TV profession with CNBC Africa, where she grapples and delivers CNBC Africa's morning appear, "Open Exchange West Africa".

You as of late won the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Did you ever hope to win such a prestigious honor?
I attempted to be as positive as could be allowed. I connected a year ago, yet didn't get past. This year, I was more arranged. I chose to act naturally all through the application procedure and not another person. I needed my adoration for reporting to radiate through and it did. I was, nonetheless, stunned, when I got the call that I won. When I consider the way that several writers crosswise over Africa connected and I won, it's strange!! Looking support toward the begin of my vocation as a columnist four years back, I never anticipated that would get to this point. News coverage was a precarious expectation to learn and adapt for me since I didn't contemplate it and began my vocation in the monetary part. I am happy that I never surrendered, when I had intense days. This recompense demonstrates to me that I picked the right way.

How do the functions of Komla Dumor motivate you to tell African stories?

Komla recounted the African story with a considerable measure of enthusiasm and in a honest and adjusted way. He changed the way the African story was told. Watching him and listening to him, you could tell that he adored what he did each and every day. You could tell that he was an extraordinary person, who coexisted with everybody he met. He found the right harmony between being agreeable and comforting his interviewees, while guaranteeing that the certainties that should have been heard were listened. He was an unplanned columnist, jus like me.I am regarded that I have been continueed the legacy of a stunning African writer like Komla. He adored telling business stories and this is a region that I cherish as well. I would like to carry on the work that he began; demonstrating Africa, as it truly may be—the great and the awful. Like Komla, I need to add to changing the view of Africa in the worldwide group. I need to enlighten the stories regarding the glow of Africa, the quality of Africans, and the flexibility of Africa.

Josephine Hazeley, Deputy Editor for BBC Africa, once contrasted you with Dumor. Did she exceed in her correlation or underrate what you can accomplish later on?

It's continually overwhelming, when you're solicited to venture into the shoes from somebody who left a stunning legacy. It's a flat out honor to be contrasted and Komla Dumor. I didn't have any significant bearing for the Komla Dumor honor only for it. I genuinely saw an association between his story as a columnist and mine; his receptive way and adoration for his occupation and mine. I trust that like him, I am ready to motivate several individuals through the stories I tell. I have dependably been myself and I will keep on being who I am.

You will join BBC on a three-month arrangement in September, as a component of the prize for winning the honor. What are the individual targets you set to accomplish amid this period?

I would like to take in a considerable measure. I am not immaculate at my occupation. I began this profession way scarcely four years prior. I plan to be a superior moderator, a superior maker, a superior editorial manager, a superior analyst and a superior storyteller. The BBC, I listen, is the best preparing ground and I am anticipating taking everything in. I additionally get the chance to recount an African story to the BBC's worldwide group of onlookers. That for me is the what tops off an already good thing!

What is the inspiration driving your vocation switch from venture managing an account to TV?

It happened inadvertently. I never arranged it. I never envisioned about it. I needed to tell African stories and the most ideal way I knew how was through the land market. I built up an affection for property venture and chose to make a narrative called "A Place in Africa" showcasing the open doors in the land market in Africa. I made a pilot and pitched to CNBC Africa and was offered an occupation. That is the way I got into news coverage. As a budgetary writer, it helps on the off chance that you have a monetary foundation, so I figure there was that connection.

Did you feel repressed without anyone else's input questions, considering that you read Chemical Engineering and had no related knowledge as telecaster when you were initially utilized by CNBC Africa
Each and every day! Reporting was likely the hardest move I made in my vocation, yet it ended up being the most compensating. Two weeks after I began at CNBC Africa, I was truly tossed on live TV. It's the scariest thing. You're before a great many individuals, who anticipate that you will perform. They anticipate that you will ask the right inquiries and take after the news or the business sectors regular (on account of money related news coverage).