{"id":398,"date":"2017-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2017\/07\/06\/mo-abudu-is-the-only-african-among-business-insiders-top-100-visionaries\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"mo-abudu-is-the-only-african-among-business-insiders-top-100-visionaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/mo-abudu-is-the-only-african-among-business-insiders-top-100-visionaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Abudu is the only African among Business Insiders\u2019 top 100 visionaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5219144_orig.jpg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"Mo Abudu is the only African among Business Insiders\u2019 top 100 visionaries\"><\/a><span style=\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block;\"><font size=\"3\">By Oreoluwa Peters<\/p>\n<p>Chairman\/CEO of Ebony Life TV, Mosunmola Mo Abudu has made the list of The Business Insider\u2019s Top 100 creators and business visionaries creating value for the world.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The media personality is 56th on the list\u00a0 \u2013 rubbing shoulders with likes of Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, and many others.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Being the only African on the list is another remarkable feat in itself \u2013 even as she came ahead of founders of world-renowned corporations such as Snapchat, Linkedin, Spotify, Zara, Uber, amongst many.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Here\u2019s what the US magazine wrote about Mo Abudu.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cMosunmola \u201cMo\u201d Abudu is chairman and CEO of one of Africa\u2019s most successful new media ventures \u2014 the Nigeria-based television network EbonyLife TV, which endeavors to tell real African stories and change the conversation around the continent.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Growing up in the UK raised by Nigerian parents, Abudu was subjected to slews of ignorant, \u201cmind-boggling\u201d comments and questions about African life and culture (\u201cDo you guys live in trees?\u201d), which triggered a desire to dispel the world\u2019s inaccurate perceptions.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cSomewhere deeply buried in my subconscious was a need to tell Africa\u2019s story. My burning desire is just to tell everybody: Listen, we\u2019re not a bunch of savages. We really are gifted,\u201d she told the Independent.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Abudu took an unorthodox route to entertainment. She returned to Nigeria in the early 1990s, working as the head of HR for ExxonMobil until 2000, when she left to launch her own HR consulting firm and, several years later, a hotel in Lagos as well. In 2006, she decided to ditch the corporate world and break into TV. She started \u201cMoments with Mo,\u201d which became the first daily talk show syndicated across the continent, landing high-profile guests like Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, and Hillary Clinton, then the US Secretary of State.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In 2013, Abudu launched EbonyLife, where she produces a wide array of TV shows, from her own talk show to an African version of \u201cDesperate Housewives,\u201d which she landed in a deal with Disney. She has also inked content distribution deals with CBS and Netflix. The network now provides premium content to to 49 countries across Africa, as well as the UK and the Caribbean.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In response to the accolade, Mo Abudu said, \u201cThis is a big moment for the entire EbonyLife TV team. Our goal remains to tell African stories and we do that by annually producing over 1000 hours of premium, original and home grown entertainment programming content. From Talk, Entertainment, Reality, Comedy, Drama, Lifestyle and Factual the channel boasts exclusive ownership of 90% of the content.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>Culled from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynaija.com\">www.ynaija.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/font><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oreoluwa Peters Chairman\/CEO of Ebony Life TV, Mosunmola Mo Abudu has made the list of The Business Insider\u2019s Top 100 creators and business visionaries creating value for the world.\u00a0The media personality is 56th on the list\u00a0 \u2013 rubbing shoulders with likes of Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Bezos, CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Oreoluwa Peters Chairman\/CEO of Ebony Life TV, Mosunmola Mo Abudu has made the list of The Business Insider\u2019s Top 100 creators and business visionaries creating value for the world.\u00a0The media personality is 56th on the list\u00a0 \u2013 rubbing shoulders with likes of Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jeff Bezos, CEO&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}