Businesses depend on the systems that keep their facilities running, from electrical maintenance and fire safety to cleaning and equipment upkeep. When these services are managed separately, coordinating contractors can add operational complexity. In Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Akhenaton Kayembe, founder of Deliver Express Logistics (DEL), is building a business around a different …
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Akhenaton Kayembe Is Building a More Integrated Approach to Facility Management in the DRC
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Christian Donfack Djoumessi Is Redefining Luxury Chocolate in Cameroon: A 2019 TEF Success Story
Christian Donfack Djoumessi wants the world to see African cocoa differently. Cameroon grows cocoa, but for Christian, producing the raw ingredient was only part of the opportunity. The bigger question was what could happen if more of that cocoa was transformed locally into premium products carrying an African identity. That question led him to create …
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Bamai Namata Is Building Trust Into Cameroon’s Informal Service Economy
Bamai Namata is making it easier to find the right person for the job. When a pipe bursts, an electrical fault disrupts a business or a home urgently needs repairs, finding the right technician can be as challenging as fixing the problem itself. Across Cameroon, households and businesses have long relied on informal artisans for …
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Meet Hyacinth, 2018 TEF ALUMNI Who got Funding in the Commercial/Retail Sector
Hyacinth decided to be an entrepreneur because he thinks entrepreneurship provides the feeling of having the license to discover and solve problems. This mindset has greatly motivated him to look at problems from the standpoint of creating a solution that solves it.
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Angele, 2018 TEF Alumna, created Cameroon’s largest job search engine
As a child, Angele spent a lot of time away from the classroom due to some health-related issues she faced during her childhood. She relied mostly on her friends and classmates to share their learning materials with her, so she could stay up to date with all that was taught in school. The importance of …
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Michel Is Driving Africa’s Narrative Through Video Games
Growing up in an African home, Michel Nkuindja, 2015 TEF Alumna, was lulled to sleep with stories about powerful and impactful women and men on the continent. This was the inspiration behind his company, Noohkema Game Studios, a creative studio that specializes in the production of real-time 3D content. Michel realised very quickly as he …
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Emmanuel Nturanyenabo’s TEF Testimonial
My name is Emmanuel Nturanyenabo, the Founder and Managing Director of Teebah Film Village, a full-service video production company based in Rwanda. I started up Teebah Film Village in July 2017 and since that time, I have been struggling mainly with how to increase sales, and how to improve our product. At some point, I …
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Agri-Startup Digifarms Africa Tackles Food Security in Cameroon
Up until December 2017, it was not very clear to Cameroonian entrepreneur Che Azenyui Bruno what exactly he was going to do to support domestic production and domestic consumption of high-quality agricultural products in Cameroon and Africa as a whole. He was particularly concerned and deeply worried about Africa dependence on imported agricultural products and …
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How Mauricette Kobozo Yadibert is Driving Inclusivity in the Central African Republic
In 2004, 11-year-old Kobozo Yadibert Mauricette first became aware of the project that would empower her community and later make her a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur with her enterprise, WA NZIN A GA ZO. Still so young, she got engaged in scouting, which further inspired her desire to foster community-driven work. She challenged himself with tasks …
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Zedilson Almeida: Fact Checking Fake News
From navigating a news application on his phone to transforming how news is consumed. This is the story of Angolan entrepreneur Zedilson, who found himself in a thinking spot in 2014, having just returned from the United States. His reflections were on how people within the media landscape in Angola engage with news and the …
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