Elizabeth

Bananuka

Founder/CEO,

BME PR Pros/Blueprinted

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ELIZABETH IS LISTED IN THE PRWEEK POWERBOOK 2019 TO 2023

Elizabeth Bananuka is the founder of BME PR Pros and Blueprinted, is listed in the PRWeek PowerBook 2019 to 2023, one of Provoke Media’s 15 to Watch 2020, and made the PRovoke Media Innovator 25 list in 2021.

Elizabeth created The Pros Awards 2024 in consultation with advisors: Claire Quansah; Daljit Bhurji; Kristian Hoareau Foged; Adrian Ma,  Julian Obubo, and Ete Davies.

Q&A 

What was your favourite PR/comms story from 2023 and why?

Beyonce’s Summer Renaissance World Tour. I’m here for a Black woman who can have a sold out tour and a film with a near 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating without having to sit down to hours of interviews with journalists. By doing so Beyoncé not only controlled her message and maintained a semblance of privacy, she also bypassed the inevitable misogynoir that many media outlets and journalists remain committed to.

What Insta/Twitter(X)/Tik Tok account should every comms pro follow and why?

@blackmagcovers on Instagram.

Aside from the stunning visuals that always make me smile, it’s signposted great articles and introduced me to so many artists, journalists, trends, photographers, publications and a whole host of other things that weren’t on my radar. It is brilliantly and beautifully curated.

As before we’ve got a great DJ booked for The Pros Awards awards ceremony in July – what’s your dancefloor-filler request?

After last year’s awards? I want a repeat of Tina Turner’s Proud Mary (iykyk).