US – Nigeria: African TV and film have boarded a rocket ship, says Akunna Cook

The otherwise quiet café in the tranquil Washington suburb of Rockville, Maryland is animated on a late September afternoon as Akunna Cook shares her plans for an African media company.

I’m catching up with the Nigerian-American former diplomat just weeks after she left a high-level job at the State Department for her own venture.

The busy businesswoman is just back from New York, following speaking engagements at the Concordia Annual Summit and the Africa Soft Power Project on the margins of the UN General Assembly.