Lape Banjo
Lape is a British-Nigerian broadcaster born on 10 January 1993; she is a television presenter, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and media personality.
Sky News
She has made social-issue-themed television and online documentaries concerning child domestic labour in West Africa, mental health in developing countries, and entrepreneurship.
Lape is commonly described as a “reporting star of the future” by media industry insiders.[1]
Lape Banjo was born on 10 January 1993. Her parents are from Nigeria, but she grew up in East London in the London borough of Newham. Her secondary school education was at St Angela’s Ursuline School, then she went to the English independent school Eastbourne College in East Sussex.
Lape has an undergraduate degree in politics & international relations from Keele University, and a master's degree in journalism, film and television from the University of Birmingham.
In 2014, at the age of 21, Lape had her first stint in TV working on a BBC 2 drama ‘Marvellous’, which received a BAFTA for best TV drama.
In 2015, she worked for Warner Bros.-owned Wall to Wall production on popular documentaries: Drugs Inc, Underworld Inc, and BBC 2’s Back In Time For Dinner. Shortly after, she moved to British broadcaster Sky News, where she worked in online, digital, planning, and production.
In 2016, Lape became a reporter for London360, a magazine-style news show that aired on the Community Channel and local London TV channel London Live.
Many of her reports included issues surrounding regeneration and social cleansing, youth entrepreneurship, and uncovering minority communities' issues.
During this time, she also worked on the radio about the then-legal high nitrous oxide for BBC Radio London. The substance became illegal shortly after.
She executive-produced the online debate show Generation Y?, which covered poignant issues affecting young people in the UK.[2]
Lape is a frequent contributor on African politics on Journalist Hangout UK and the lifestyle chat show Noni on Yanga TV.[3] [4]
She is currently an anchor and correspondent for international news station Arise News, and covers all foreign and international news.
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