• Rethinking Capitalism: The Africapitalist Perspective

    By Tony O. Elumelu, CON   Last Friday, I was proud to be a speaker during the second annual Conference on Inclusive Capitalism in London, led by the visionary and irrepressible Lady Lynn de Rothschild.  As I prepared my remarks for a panel held during the conference, I wrestled with the fact that capitalism that is …

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  • Dele Momodu endorses TEEP

    The article below is an excerpt taken from Dele Momodu’s back page Pendulum column ThisDay , Saturday 26th June, 2015.   As I wrote last week, Nigeria needs to create thousands of new entrepreneurs in order to get out of the present economic quagmire that has made it impossible for too many Nigerians to have jobs. …

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  • Tony Elumelu’s Entrepreneurial City Tour

    Late last year, I was invited by The Economist magazine to submit an article for their annual “Year In” series. I ended up writing a thought-provoking piece that made predictions about issues I felt would be most impactful on the global stage and from my perspective in Africa, in 2015. My prediction was that 2015 …

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  • Emerging Global Entrepreneurs Event at the White House

    Shadi Sabeh’s Photo Blog On the 12th December 2012, I became a part of the Tony Elumelu Foundation by receiving the Tony and Awele Elumelu Legacy Prize as the best performing M.Sc graduating student at Usman Dan Fodio University. Since then, my life has transformed for the better. In the same year, I founded the …

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  • Entrepreneur-led Development as Model (Guest Column for ThisDay)

    By Tony O. Elumelu Too many policymakers think in terms of traditional aid when they think of support for Africa and the developing world.  I think of Shadi Sabeh.  Shadi is a young man from Sokoto in northern Nigeria – a region currently struggling with a lack of opportunity and economic engagement, especially for the …

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  • Meet The Class of 2015

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  • Builders of the Black Continent

    In an attempt to stimulate the African economy, some organisations are stirring entrepreneurial growth on the continent, with Tony Elumelu Foundation leading the pack. Adeola Akinremi writes Rose Abba, 32, an entrepreneur from Jos, Plateau State, one of Nigeria’s middle belt states, had become distraught after many years of struggling to access loan for her …

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  • Your Ideas Can Transform Africa – Apply Now

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  • TEEP Application Portal Now Open – Apply

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  • Application portal to TEEP is now Live – Apply

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