Jak Beula

Beula worked alongside London 2012 with his innovated diversity project, On Track 4 Gold.

Beula was the founder of the Nubian Jak Community Trust, Britain's only national BME commemorative plaque and sculpture scheme, which since 2006 has been honouring Black personalities of the past, and also organised Britain's first African and Caribbean War Memorial, in Windrush Square.

He began to devise an educational programme that would try to address these points, out of which came the board game Nubian Jak. It immediately became a bestseller in London, prompting Beula to give up work as a social worker. By the ending of 1996 educational magnates such as Time-Life were commenting on its innovation. In 1998 Beula self-published the first edition of Nubian Jak's Book of World Facts. Dubbed "the truth with proof", it was subtitled "The Ultimate Reference Guide to Global Black Achievement". In 2001 Beula signed a publishing deal with HarperCollins in New York to reissue the book.

Beula is a former singer (with his 1980s band Stigma and 1990s band This Medusa) and model, who between 1992 and 1995 featured in a successful long-running advertising campaign by Interflora.

Jak Beula Dodd (born Johnny Alexander Bubeula Dodd on 4 July 1963), commonly known as Jak Beula, is a British entrepreneur best known for inventing the board game Nubian Jak. He is also a cultural activist, musician, social-worker, and former model. He is the founder and chief executive of the Nubian Jak Community Trust, which since 2006 has been commemorating the contributions of African-Caribbean people in Britain.