Chude Jideonwo is Founder & Chairman of HBC Holdings, the parent brand of media groups RED
| For Africa and FourthMainland. He is also host of #WithChude, one of Africa’s most watched
talk shows and #WithChudeLive, Africa’s biggest talk concert. A lawyer, journalist and media
entrepreneur, he has worked across 23 African countries and advised governments and
presidents across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone. He has been a
Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, CNBC Young Business Leader of the Year, an Archbishop
Desmond Tutu Fellow, a World Fellow at Yale University and Creative-In-Residence at the
London School of Economics. In 2020, he launched #WithChude, a viral podcast and
multi-platform talk show featuring intimate, transformative conversations with African leaders
and celebrities. Syndicated on four Pan-African TV networks, streamed on withChude.com, with
tens of millions of views on YouTube, it has become one of the continent’s largest IP libraries for
stories of healing and transformation. In 2025, he announced the FourthMainland Creator Fund
to invest in African creators as the future of independent media on the continent. An author of
four books, his writing and work have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian,
BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, and the Financial Times.
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Chude Jideonwo
Founder & Chairman, HBC Holdings and Host #WithChude
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