Powerlist:it started with a black power list. Next stop, a school | Michael Eboda

David Adjaye is the number one in the list of this year's most influential black people in Britain, which began five years ago

would have been skeptical if someone had told me five years ago, when I started working in the Powerlist: the most influential blacks in Britain, three of our releases would be assisted by Prime Minister of the day (twice by Gordon Brown and David Cameron last Thursday). Furthermore, only to be told that lead to the creation of a charity whose leaders are among the tenors of the country in their respective fields.

But he did all this and more, and seems to have taken his own life now. At its launch in 2008, the idea was to show how the success of Black British is not limited to sports and recreation. Black children wanted to find other people -. In the professions and beyond

As Prime Minister writes Powerlist this year: "Never underestimate the power of young models When the performance is like them, who came to. up in the law, business, politics, will think ". I can do it, I can go too far "" That's why we send thousands of copies, most paid by the people on the list, schools

We are also interested in people of other ethnic groups are also aware of the list. Most racism is born of ignorance and contempt. Challenge negative stereotypes can change perceptions. To survive, Powerlist must be dynamic and over the years have found that people more. In 2008, Dr. Mo Ibrahim, the billionaire philanthropist, top of the list when most people had never heard of him. Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General at the time, addressed to the following year and was replaced by two consecutive years Tidjane, CEO of Prudential. This year, David Adjaye, who Obama calls his favorite architect, is number one on the list, selected by a panel of independent judges who work from a definition of influence as "the ability to alter events and change life in a positive way. "

• His first post is particularly important because it is essentially a manufacturer and Adjaye Powerlist Foundation, said organization, plans to build a free school to open in 2015. It will be a college level, with special emphasis on leadership, located in the center of London. Its use will be children from disadvantaged backgrounds who have leadership potential that might otherwise untapped. Our mission is to give them a boost in line with our motto: "Sharing success with tomorrow's leaders"

Future? We have already launched a publication called

Future Leaders

, which has the best black students and next year we will add a publication on women that love goes a leadership program for young women at the university. It will be interesting to see where we are in the next five years.

Eboda Michael is the founder and CEO of Powerful Media Ltd Powerlist is available for purchase online at

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