At this year’s Warwick Africa Summit, Grammy-winning singer and rapper Eve, who is also a longstanding Malaika Goodwill Ambassador, will take the stage, making the event notable than the previous year’s.
The award-winning musician and actress was the very first winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2002 for the song “Let Me Blow Ya Mind”. In 2002 her album Scorpion was also nominated for Best Rap Album. In 1999, she released her debut album, Let There Be Eve…Ruff Ryders’ First Lady, which reached number one on the Billboard 200, making her the third female rapper to accomplish this feat. As an actress, she starred as Terri Jones in the Barbershop films, among others.
More recently, Eve was named NYU Steinhardt School of Culture’s scholar-in-residence for 2024-25.
Eve was named Malaika’s Goodwill Ambassador in 2016 following her visit to the Malaika School with Founder & CEO Noella Coursaris Musunka to inaugurate the very first library on International Women’s Day. In summer 2023, she was named President of the First Cohort of Malaika Students and attended the 2023 graduation ceremony as the ceremony’s guest of honor, delivering a speech to all attendees and the class of ’23 graduates.
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