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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan journalist and winner of the Caine Prize for African writing, joins Rotimi Amaechi, Kayode Fayemi and a host of leading pan-African speakers at the inaugural edition of The RED Summit.

The summit, billed to hold at the Harbour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos from October 15 to 18, will host the executive producer of Coke Studio Africa, David Sanders; corporate affairs director of Microsoft Corporation, Louis Otieno and award winning television host, Anita Erskine.

Biola Alabi, the former managing director of MNET Africa; Uche Pedro, chief executive officer of leading lifestyle blog BellaNaija; Betty Irabor, chief executive officer, Genevieve Magazine and Deji Awokoya, general manager at Beat FM will also speak at the event.

Other high-profile speakers include Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, communication and public affairs manager, Google West Africa; Rimini Makama, corporate communication director of Africa Practice; Tolu Ogunlesi, award-winning journalist; James Schneider, senior correspondent at New African Magazine.

“The summit will be West Africa’s biggest media talk shop,” Chude Jideonwo, managing partner of Red Media Africa, organisers of the summit said

“We will draw lessons from veterans in West Africa’s media over the decades and chart the course, with other media stakeholders, for the future of the media in West Africa.”

The summit, in partnership with Troyka Holding and the School of Media & Communication, Pan-African University, will bring together media leaders.

Individuals and organisations in public relations, advertising, television, radio, print and online from across the globe will also be in attendance to define the future of the media in a rapidly-changing landscape.

Participants will connect, network and anchor high-level conversations and solutions about the media in host country, Nigeria, and across African audiences.

Registration is still open, at www.theredsummit.org.