Ade Onibada

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08/02/23 • 74 min

Ade Onibada is a girls girl. She’s frank, has got her wits about her and knows when it's time to advocate for herself. Until recently, the journalist, producer, and host, was an internet culture reporter at BuzzFeed UK. Prior to that, she worked as a news reporter at The Voice, Britain’s only Black national newspaper, where found her feet as a problem-solving journalist.

I think our conversation is a great indication of how bright Ade’s future is and why we need more journalists like her. We spoke about her time at BuzzFeed UK, artificial intelligence, the current state of journalism, writing pet peeves, navigating British newsrooms as a Black woman, what’s next for her, and why it's important to show up and prove yourself worthy. Ade is a breath of fresh air. I see why she calls herself ‘Queen Sunny Ade’ now.

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Artwork by Matt Munday.

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Follow Ade on Twitter and Instagram.

Read the stories Ade wrote during her time at BuzzFeed UK.

Follow Yolanthe on Twitter and Instagram.

Follow Black Prose on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

Subscribe to the Black Prose Podcast newsletter on Substack.

Produced by New Strange.

Artwork by Matt Munday.

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