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After returning from a long stint in Myanmar for work, a friend who knew about her love for fruit gave her a 40 kg crate of mangoes to take back to Gabon. Upon arrival, most of the mangoes were already ripe and not wanting to through them away she came up with the idea of making jams. She looked for recipes on the internet and within a few months she was creating jams for her family and loved ones. This continued until one of her family members suggested that she start selling her jams. She took on the advice and participated in a trade fair and to her surprise she sold out.

In 2016, she decided to hang up her engineering apron at Total to put on that of a gourmet entrepreneur when she officially founded Les Petits Pots de l’Ogooué a line of gourmet jams, based in Gabon: Les Petits Pots de l’Ogooué. In creating her recipes, Jessica draws on her travel experiences to create moments of escape. She selects precious ingredients from around the world to create delicious jams that highlight culture. When she’s not in her lab creating a new recipes, she takes care of her 5-year-old son
and inspires him to follow his dreams with courage and determination. Since completing the TEF Programme, Since then, Jessica has managed to sell nearly 14,000 jars of jams and generate over $105,000 in revenue (note: could be more as of 2020).

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Before becoming a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, Tidiane found it difficult to position her business in the market. In addition to not knowing what the most appropriate business strategy was, she also had a very limited product stock. However, the programme empowered her and her team to validate and ensure the sustainability of the business idea, prepared and provided guidance to the design of a suitable business plan and allowed them to increase their offerings. This expansion further allowed Uabiluka to strengthen the customer relationships and attract women specialists to work with them.

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The Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme gave him the much-needed support he required to make a commitment of such magnitude. He knew Nasmalust was a viable business opportunity when digital marketing and media began to trend in Africa. Most brands were adopting the US and Europe-based approach to marketing to Africans, and his vision was to change that and make it more authentic by adding Afrocentric elements.

During the 2020 State of Emergency in Namibia as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nasmalust was registered as an essential service company, making it among the very few companies that could assist public organizations with the distribution of information relating to Covid-19.

For James, his greatest challenge has been his desire to scale the business and become the digital media giant he plans for it to be. He is constantly contracting jobs to young videographers, photographers, and marketing professionals and providing Namibians with local content through their work with local brands.

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Since its creation, his technological company, “KOSUNGA” has offered solutions in the field of information and communication technologies with services deployed across Africa through its platforms.  The company is evolving from two perspectives: the first is the heart, which is the development of technological platforms and many others, having a continental influence by their research & development. The second perspective is in providing a development solution:  websites, web and mobile applications, software, social media management (with social networks, digital marketing), and ISO Certified Training (Partner of PECB American & Canadian company).

Saint Eudes believes in the realization of projects (awareness-raising, workshops, conferences) that are concerned with internet governance affecting young people and Congolese citizens living in Congo. His passion is to develop his country, and the continent of Africa in terms of economy and technology.

In addition to being an entrepreneur, he has several commitments to voluntary service in the Republic of Congo, including the All Humanity Network, Youthlead, YouthPower, CGNOG, ELONGA, KOTLIN (new Google language in Congo Brazzaville), GDG (Google Developer Group), and YOUTHCOM.

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His aspiration is to become the preferable Poultry farming enterprise in Rwanda. So far, his business has created jobs and continue to contribute to national development through taxes. He is also a role model in his community for the young generation.

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After deeply analysing the worst situation of his community which ranged from poor quality of education and information technology, he started out with purchasing a photocopying machine to provide copy service to my community. Soon, people his community started requesting that he also typed documents for them.

This ignited their interest to learn how to type documents and handle computers. Felix then proceeded to acquire an additional 10 PCs and opened his first training center. In space of 7 months, Felix had enrolled more than 600 students in various courses and hired 4 young people.

So far, his business has trained more than 2,400 students in various IT courses.

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With a staff of 13 and revenue of over $26,000, she has been able to open up a clinic and create an online bilingual app for her clients.​

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His company, AAEI Empreendimentos Lda came about during his first second year doing Chemical Engineering in Angola. “I realized that getting a degree was not going to fulfill me because I wanted to think and be part of the solution that could solve some of the most basic problems in Luanda,” he says.

It was there that he met one of his business partners, who would join him to bring life to some projects that could bring some solutions to common problems.

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