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Sonia Annick Agbantou, the versatile vlogger serving the community

A microphone specialist with a degree in communication, Sonia Annick AGBANTOU has been a host and live presenter for nearly twenty years.
A media professional in Benin, she presents several programmes on the national channel, “Rue des décideurs”, “Coup de pouce” and “Graines de star”, bringing to each of them a smile and infectious good humour. She also hosts many events at home and abroad (United States, France, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire).
In 2012, drawing on several years of experience in traditional media (television and radio), she launched SONIA TV on Facebook, https://web.facebook.com/SoniaMagTv/, a multi-format web TV channel (magazine, video) through which she gives advice and shares her experiences with her community.
She thus became the first Beninese vlogger (video blogger) regularly active online, with high-audience programmes such as “Les minutes de Sonia” and “Le canapé de Sonia”.
With a community of more than 85,000 followers on her Facebook page, she launched “Les peintres du sourire” (The painters of smiles), a social project that has helped many hospitalised children recover through art therapy at HOMEL, a referral hospital in Cotonou.
Hyperactive, Sonia Agbantou is also behind many other projects (SOS to help people in difficult situations, a project supporting orphanages).
In December 2018, she organised the first edition of Women’s Digital Entrepreneurship Day (EDF), which brought together some thirty women entrepreneurs who received training and shared experiences with experts from many fields (entrepreneurship, digital, trade, marketing, communication, finance, etc.). Join me on my official digital channels, Facebook and Twitter: https://twitter.com/AurelieASZ until 30 March 2019 to discover the profiles of exceptional women from a range of fields (social action, education, health, tourism, fashion, etc.) who are making an impact on their communities through digital tools and thereby helping to reduce the gender gap, the gender digital divide. Let’s discover them together! Let’s share their stories! Official hashtag: #FemmeDigitale229 Ms Aurelie Adam Soule Zoumarou, Minister of Digital Economy and Communication of Benin