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Lape Banjo (birthdate – death) can be a lead-in to the subject's real, formal, or extended name. Describe the subject's nationality and profession(s) in which the subject is most notable. Provide a description of the subject's major contributions in the immediately relevant field(s) of notable expertise.

Biography
Lape Banjo is a British- Nigerian broadcaster born 10th January 1993; she is a television presenter, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and media personality.

She has made social-issue-themed television and online documentaries concerning child domestic labour in West Africa , mental health in developing countries, and entrepreneurship. Banjo is commonly described as a “reporting star of the future” by media industry insiders

Early life
Banjo was born on 10th January 1993, Her parents are from Nigeria, but she grew up in East London in the London borough of Newham, where she attended St Winefrides primary school and later St Angela's Ursuline School  secondary school. She went on to complete her A levels at the English independent school Eastbourne College in East Sussex. Banjo has an undergraduate degree in politics & international relations from Keele University, and a Masters in Journalism, Film, and television from the University of Birmingham

Life and Career
In 2014, at the age of 21, Lape had her first sting in TV working as a researcher on a BBC TWO drama Marvellous which received a BAFTA for best TV drama.

In 2015, she worked for Warner Bros owned, Wall to Wall Media on popular documentaries;Drugs, Inc. ,Underworld, Inc. and BBC TWO Back in Time for.... Shortly after, she moved to British broadcaster Sky News, where she worked in news production on the Live at Five (Sky News programme) as well as online, digital, planning and production.

In 2016 Lape became a reporter for London 360, a magazine-style news show that aired on the Together (TV channel) ( formerly community channel) and London Live (TV channel) Many of her reports included issues surrounding regeneration and social cleansing, youth entrepreneurship ,as well as investigating and uncovering minority communities. During this time she also worked on the radio about the then legal high nitrous oxides for BBC Radio London. The substance became illegal shortly after.

She executive produced online debate show GenerationY? which covered poignant issues affecting young people in the UK.

Lape is a frequent contributor on African politics on Journalist Hangout UK and lifestyle chat show Noni on Yanga TV

She is currently an anchor and correspondent for International News station Arise News and covers all foreign and international news. She has covered major events on the continent, including the hotly contested Nigerian elections in 2019