Peace Hyde is a Television producer, TV Host, Creator, Journalist, and Education Activist.
She is the creator and executive producer of Netflix’s first African reality TV series Young, Famous and African, as well as the Head of Digital Media and Partnership and the West African Correspondent at Forbes Africa.
She is the founder of Aim Higher Africa, a non-profit organization focused on improving the quality of education in impoverished communities across Africa.
In 2018, she was shortlisted among 200 leaders as part of the Obama Foundation Africa Leaders program and in 2019, was awarded the African Social Impact award at the House of Parliament, House of Commons in the UK.
Hyde was born and raised in London, where she lived until 2015 before she relocated to Ghana. During her early years in London, she briefly practiced as a child psychologist before embarking on a career as a science teacher specializing in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology.
Hyde is an alumnus of Middlesex University where she graduated with a psychology degree.
Hyde is the head of Digital Media and partnership as well as the West African Correspondent at Forbes Africa. She is responsible for the editorial content from the West African region as well as driving revenue growth for the brands through partnerships.
She is also an education activist known for her work providing education and entrepreneurship development for impoverished and unemployed youths. Her impactful work with her charity Aim Higher Africa led to Hyde being shortlisted by Barack Obama as an Obama Foundation Leaders Africa fellow.
In 2019, Hyde was also awarded the Africa Social Impact Award at the UK House of Parliament for her work in providing quality education to impoverished youths through the Aim Higher Africa skills acquisition centre.
Hyde is also a leading journalist whose work has appeared in Black Enterprise, Huffington Post, Ebony, and Fox News.
She was included in the United Nations’ Most Influential People of African Descent list for 2017 and 2018.
Hyde is also a judge for several prestigious awards including the CNBC All Africa Business Leaders Awards, The Chivas Venture Fund, and the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award.
Education activism
Hyde is the founder of education not-for-profit Aim Higher Africa with a focus on building the next generation of entrepreneurs and change-makers in Africa by educating, inspiring, and empowering a generation of young leaders.
The organization has been engaging and providing quality education for entrepreneurs across the continent to learn and develop by offering invaluable connections to like-minded peers, access to investors, mentorship, and financial literacy workshops. Since its inception, the organization has created over 6000 small businesses in West Africa and reaching some 3 million-plus students.
In 2018, Hyde launched her skills acquisition centre in Yaba to provide free education and also provide skills training for start-ups in Nigeria to develop entrepreneurship skills through her innovative Mind-set Reorientation and Design Thinking (MRDT) curriculum.
Media entrepreneurship
Peace is the pioneer creator and executive producer of the first-ever African reality TV series on Netflix, Young, Famous, and African.
She is the creator, producer as well as the host of two leading flagship talk shows, Forbes Africa’s My Worst Day with Peace Hyde (3 seasons), where she speaks to Africa’s billionaires, and Forbes Woman Africa’s Against the Odds (2 seasons) on the CNBC Africa channel on DSTV.
She is also the producer of the Vice News documentary, Inside Nigeria’s push to end police brutality. The documentary is a winner of the Top Shorts film festival award, Los Angeles Film Festival, Lonely Wolf Film Festival, and the IMDB Special Award.
Peace Hyde also hosted her own talk show, Friday Night Live which run for 4 seasons as well as the hit music talent competition in Ghana, MTN Hitmaker for 3 seasons.
Named by CNN as Ghana’s most successful media maven, Hyde’s work has been featured on CNN, Black Enterprise, Huffington Post, Ebony, Fox News, and Essence.
She was named to the United Nations Most Influential People of African Decent list for 2017 and 2018 and named as one of the 100 most influential young people in Africa.
In 2018, Peace was shortlisted by President Barack Obama from a pool of 30,000 African leaders to be part of the 200 Inaugural Obama Foundation Africa Leaders, a recognition that highlights her remarkable work with her education nonprofit, Aim Higher Africa, which has built over 6000 businesses for grassroots entrepreneurs in Ghana and created opportunities for millions of unemployed youths in Africa.
Public Speaking
Peace Hyde regularly speaks on the power of mindsets, fulfilling life purpose, entrepreneurship development, and education, as well as Gender Equality and Women empowerment issues.
Hyde was the keynote speaker for the Flourish Africa Conference, a platform created by Africa’s richest woman, Folorunso Alakija.
She was also a speaker at TEDx Accra, TEDx Kumasi, Global Social Awards in Prague, Essence, Africa 2018 Forum in Egypt, Social Media Week Lagos, and Hustle in Heels London.