EbonyLife TV, owned by Media Personality Mo Abudu, Africa’s first Global Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network, was launched on June 30, 2013, and began broadcasting on July 01, 2013 to a pan-African audience, by a license agreement with Multichoice (DStv) Africa, Africa’s largest Pay TV platform. The channel is distributed to 49 African countries, including South Africa and Southern African countries.
Ranked as one of the most watched channels on the DStv platform by our target demographics across the continent which consist of youth (aged between 18 and 34) and women, EbonyLife TV annually produces over 1000 hours of premium, original, and homegrown Anglo-African entertainment programming to include Talk, Entertainment, Reality, Comedy, Drama, Lifestyle, Factual, among others. The station boasts of talented, smart and gorgeous female hosts and TV presenters. City People’s VIVIAN ONUORAH profiles the female presenters on Ebonylife TV.
OMOWUNMI ‘MIMI’ ONALAJA
26-year-old Mimi is a TV Presenter, Budding Actress, and Fashion/Lifestyle, Columnist. She is a graduate of New York Film Academy and currently, she works as a TV presenter at Ebony life TV where she is a Co-host on play2win and she is also a presenter on VVIP events. The stylish and pretty presenter also has a column on Style Vitae – ‘For The Life of Mimi’, where she shares her awesome style and wonderful experiences.
TALLULAH DOHERTY
Multi-talented TV star Tallulah Doherty popularly known as Tallulah Glossy is one of the hottest and smartest presenters on Ebonylife TV. The petite damsel anchors the VVIP events program on Ebonylife tv.She also co-hosts Moments alongside Toke Makinwa and Bolinto.The stylish presenter also owns an upscale nail studio Wow Nails with branches in Lekki, Palms Mall Lagos.
TOKE MAKINWA
On Air Personality Toke Makinwa one of three presenters of Moments, (a spin-off of Moments with MO ).It is an African daily talk show featuring host from Nigeria, Ghana, South African and Kenya on Ebony Life Tv.She is a Nigerian radio personality, television host, vlogger, and author. She is known for co-hosting The Morning Drive on Rhythm 93.7 FM and her YouTube vlog series Toke Moments. She joined the Moments team as a guest host and has since featured in many episodes on the EbonyLife TV Network.
ZAINAB BALOGUN
26 year old Zainab Balogun is a Nigerian actress, model and television presenter. She began modelling at an early age after being scouted at 16. She has been featured in several international campaigns for different brands. She co-founded “The J-ist TV”, an online entertainment web-series that highlights African culture and a range of topical issues; the series features interviews involving some of Africa’s top personalities. She currently works as a television presenter for EbonyLife TV, an entertainment television station, for which she currently co-hosts and produces The Spot, the channel’s leading talk show, with Lamide Akintobi.Zainab Balogun was born in London, United Kingdom to Nigerian parents. She attended Christ the King Sixth Form College where she completed her A Levels in Law, Psychology, and English Language & Literature. She then attended the University of Kent in Medway where she received a Bachelor of Law .
CYNTHIA KAMALU
Cynthia is a TV presenter, radio personality and blogger. The Human Anatomy graduate of University of Port Harcourt is one of the presenters of EL Now on Ebonylife TV. She worked with Cool FM 96.9 Lagos before joining the Ebonylife TV team. She emerged winner of the ELOY 2015 TV Presenter of the Year award. The beautiful television host won the award for her show, ‘EL Now’ which airs on EbonyLife.
BOLANLE OLUKANNI
TV presenter Bolanle Olukanni is a host on Moments with Ebonylife tv.Bolanle was raised in Nigeria, Israel and Kenya. Olukanni attended St. Saviours Primary school in Lagos and went on to Queens College for secondary school. Olukanni moved to Nairobi attended Rosslyn Academy in Nairobi, Kenya for part of her high school. Prior to her final year of high school, she moved to America to for her senior year and attended Wichita Southeast High School in Wichita, Kansas, where she participated in the National Speech and Debate Tournament for Dramatic Interpretation. In 2007, Olukanni received a Bachelor’s degree from Loyola University, Chicago, with a double degree – Bachelors of Arts in both Communications and International Studies
OREKA GODIS
TV presenter Oreka Godis anchors the program Love Lounge on Ebonylife TV. The half Nigerian half British presenter attended Kings College London -where she graduated with a Clinical Sciences BSc (Hons) degree.She relocated to Nigeria in 2009 to work for The Beat 99.9FM where she co-anchored the biggest breakfast show in Lagos, Nigeria. During her breakfast show, Oreka successfully executed entertaining and informative live radio shows covering politics, entertainment, sports and world news. She hosted ‘Rookies and Dons’ – a weekly British Council program on UK education and lifestyle. The Love Lounge is an EbonyLife TV’s syndicated radio & TV show on love, sex & relationships.
AMA K. ABEBRESE
Ama K. Abebrese is a Ghanaian Award winning Actress and TV Presenter. She started her TV career in the UK as a teenager where she co-hosted the ‘BBC2 and Youth Culture Television (YCTV) show ‘Pass the Mic’ and YCTV’s ‘Cinemania’. She went on to host OBE TVs ‘One Touch’ as well ‘On the Sofa’ TV shows. She is currently a co-host on one of Ghana’s most popular morning show’s ‘Newday’.She is the host for EBonylife TV show moments in Ghana.hub
WANIJIRA LONGAUER
Wanjira is a television and radio host, event emcee, and voice over artist. She is the co-host for Ebonylife TV’s moments in Kenya.
PEARL THUSI
South African TV presenter is one of the hosts of Moments and anchors the South African version. She is also a popular actress and has featured in Soul City, Rhythm City, Family Bonds, Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency, and iCrew as career highlights. She also co-hosts the Saturday morning show from 05:00 – 09:00 on South Africa’s largest national urban commercial station
BERLA MUNDI
Ghanaian TV Presenter, and Actress , Berla Addardey, known in the Showbiz industry as ‘Berla Mundi’ began her career in TV presenting two years ago, debuting as co-presenter on the award winning show, Rythmz (Television Awards Ghana 2014’s Most Outstanding Music and Variety TV Show) on Ghone TV which mhas viewership in Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia and more.
LERATO KGANYAGO
South African screen star Lerato officially began her journey to stardom in 2002 when she was crowned Miss Jam Alley and later Miss Soweto in 2005. She has also featured on popular drama series ‘4 play – sex tips for girls’ and Mnet’s The Wild & recently returned to TV presenting after being chosen as the face of the popular lifestyle entertainment show – The Link on SABC
AMANDA AFOLABI
Amanda is a co-host of Moments Z on Ebony life TV’s
LISA MACHE
Lisa is one of the hosts of Moments Z on Ebony life TV
PELUMI SHITTU
She is a co-host of moments Z on Ebonylife TV,
