Afoali |

Afoali Ngwakum Akisa is a creative entrepreneur and founder of 9:16 Stories, a video production company that explores new ways of telling stories in an ever-evolving digital landscape. With a background in creating content designed for social media and storytelling that amplifies underrepresented voices, she is increasingly integrating artificial intelligence into her creative process, from ideation and pre-production to experimenting with new visual formats. Afoali approaches AI with curiosity rather than certainty: she tests, questions, and learns at the pace of its evolution. Her work invites creatives to consider AI not as a replacement for their voice, but as an additional tool to imagine, create, and tell stories differently. With a background in social content creation and storytelling centered on underrepresented voices, she is incredibly intelligent in her creative process, from ideation and pre-production to experimentation with new formats. Afoali approaches AI with curiosity rather than certainty: testing, questioning, and learning as the technology evolves. Her work offers creative invitations to see AI not as a replacement for their voice, but as another tool for imagining, creating, and telling stories differently.