Afika Nxumalo
Songwriter @Bmg
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WORK HISTORY
Songwriter @Bmg
New York, NY, US
Write, record and produce original music for major label recording artists and for film, television, and mixed-media synchronization license.• Clients include The Coca Cola Company, Microsoft, Spotify, Dominoes
EDUCATION
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Media Studies, Entrepreneurship
Columbia University
Teaching Artist Fellow, Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Political Science and Government
SKILLS
ABOUT AFIKA NXUMALO
Hey LinkedIn.My name is Afika, and I\'m a Word Nerd (\"hi afika \"). To understand Word Nerds, simply understand story obsession. I\'m so obsessed with story that I legitimately believe that stories are the waveforms of how we experience material reality—just like light waves, sound waves, or even water waves, stories are ups and downs, lefts and rights, across time and space.As a songwriter by craft and calling, this page is a career risk: in musician world, LinkedIn is the “realm of the others,\" and I\'m majorly breaking the rules by being here. LSS, this profile is meant to display how my storycraft shows up in artistic, commercial, professional, and institutional spaces—from being a student of comms and media at my dream university, to being a professional practitioner of both songwriting and copywriting with some of the most accoladed teams on earth, to even being a professor of impact-driven songwriting at the Ivy League level (‼), to scripting and voice acting for the biggest brands on earth, to on-camera presenting, public speaking, and beyond. My cheesy goal is that wherever I’m involved, expect something special: a story that grabs attention, builds loyalty, and drives action.Some random thoughts to understand the mind of a Word Nerd:My opinion on the top 3 most important tech inventions ever:1) The Camera. Soon as we could capture images and display them, we gained control over the human understanding of the world. 2) The Internet. A globally-interconnected digital brain. A destroyer of our biosocial evolution to assimilate to no more than 150 people at a time (look up the Dunbar number). A global open forum with silent, invisible moderators.3) Artificial Intelligence.(Cliche—I know.) What the calculator did for math in the 60s, AI is doing for language, and image today.*But also* coding.*And* graphic design. And music production. And film production. And webdev. And financial projections, voiceovers, teaching, and much, much more. My most controversial opinion is that we need a Tech Oversight Committee in Congress. We\'ve needed one for a while—to regulate the AI/tech arms race, to democratize access to connectivity as a public utility and not a private commodity, and a public forum to openly discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence and its effect on our single greatest asset—human intellectual property.If you have a story, idea, project, or vision that’s both *unmissable* AND *unbeatable*, REACH OUT at a••••@afika.life. I’m generous with contact, and choosey with attention. —All My Best
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