The Awarding Board
Distinguished. Diverse. Discerning.
Meet the leaders entrusted with guiding the integrity, vision, and final decisions of the Spicy Awards. Bringing together experience across peacebuilding, governance, public communication, partnerships, healthcare, innovation, and social impact, the Awarding Board helps ensure that recognition is grounded in excellence, integrity, and meaningful impact.
Guardians of the Spicy Awards
Guardians of the Spicy Awards
The Awarding Board provides senior-level leadership, oversight, discernment, and institutional guidance to the Spicy Awards. Its members bring diverse professional perspectives while sharing a commitment to ethical leadership, inclusion, innovation, and grassroots impact.
Meet the Awarding Board
Explore the people helping shape the Spicy Awards.
Founder
The vision behind the Spicy Awards.
Erick Inghatt Matsanza
Visionary social entrepreneur and founder of Spice Without Borders and the Spicy Awards, dedicated to celebrating and amplifying the courage, creativity, and resilience of changemakers across Africa and beyond.
Recognition from the margins to the mainstage.
The Awarding Board stands behind a recognition platform built around integrity, excellence, meaningful impact, and the people creating change from the grassroots.