Thebe Ikalafeng

Hall of Fame global African branding authority
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Thebe Ikalafeng

Thebe Ikalafeng is a Hall of Fame global African branding authority and THE leading advocate for a brand-led African agenda. He has been recognized as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans.

A trailblazing marketer, since being awarded a Marquette University American Marketing Association for marketing excellence upon graduation in 1992 in the United States, he has made a sustained, distinguished and consequential contribution to branding and in reframing the African narrative for over 30 years.


He is the founder of BLG, a multi-disciplinary advisory group at the intersection of strategy, creativity and intellectual property law; the founder of the seminal non-profit Brand Africa movement for a brand-led African agenda and the ‘Brand Africa 100: Africa’s Best Brands’ initiative which is widely referenced as the definitive barometer of brands in Africa.



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He has received Lifetime Achievement awards by Financial Mail AdFocus and the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa, and an EMY Africa Special Recognition Award in Ghana for driving a brand-led African revolution. An avid traveller and champion of African destinations, he has been to every country in Africa and every continent in the world from Cape to Cairo, and the Arctic in Greenland to Antarctica; trekked the rare silverback gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda; summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Sinai, and jumped the 216m high Bloukrans Bridge bunjee in South Africa, among his many breath-taking adventures globally.

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