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Nana Amoako-Anin

Joshua Praise — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:43:57 +0000

Nana Amoako-Anin is the Founder of Bliss Yoga Accra, one of the few full-service yoga studios credited with popularising yoga in Ghana.

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Tom-Chris Emewulu

Joshua Praise — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:34:45 +0000

Tom-Chris Emewulu is a 2017 TEF entrepreneur and founder of SFAN, an Accra-based education company that unlocks the potential of youths. SFAN (Stars From All Nations) is a social enterprise that works in equipping young Africans with skills and opportunities they need to engage the real world, through EPIC events and a 6-weeks career accelerator program called Readyforwork. With these tools, young people receive personalized, actionable, and coach support to launch their businesses or careers.

Through SFAN, Tom-Chris established Student Entrepreneurship Week, an annual youth entrepreneurship initiative that aims to solve unemployment in Africa by helping students create businesses while in school.

When he is not building Stars From All Nations and helping rising professionals create their dream companies and careers, he’s telling African innovation stories or advocating for people-centered policies. He has been featured on Forbes, DW, Business Insider, SABC, Next Billion, and other publications.

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Laud Basing

Joshua Praise — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:53:55 +0000

Laud Basing is the founder of Incas Diagnostics, a medical diagnostic development and manufacturing social enterprise located in Kumasi, Ghana. The company seeks to save lives through the design of low-cost, easy-to-use, point-of-care diagnostic test kits designed specifically for Africa. His company also offers an online/mobile platform enabling users to have the convenience of chatting with health professionals..

Basing won the first prize in Africa.com’s Brilliant African Innovations Against COVID-19 for his rapid Covid-19 test kit. The test kit is a comprehensive app that incorporates a symptom assessment checker, captures test results, tracks of patient location using GPS signals, and disseminates this data to public health authorities.

Read more about Laud Basing

Meet the Winners of Africa.com’s Brilliant Brilliant African Innovations Against COVID-19.

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Prince Kwame Agbata

Joshua Praise — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:17:34 +0000

Prince Kwame Agbata is the co-founder of Coliba, an early stage waste management platform that leverages on mobile and web technology to help users separate their waste, schedule and request a pickup and get waste picked from the comfort of user’s home.

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Oduku Funmi Martinson

Joshua Praise — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:34:53 +0000

Funmart’s Blends and Desserts is a bakery and smoothies manufacturing company founded on the platform of solving the Social Development Goals 3 and 10.

SDGs Goal 3 – Good Health and Well-Being

SDGs Goal 5 – Gender Equality

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Kimberly Addison

Joshua Praise — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 16:21:21 +0000

’57 is the pioneer bean to bar chocolate business in Ghana defined by creativity and authenticity. ‘57 Chocolate is short for 1957, the year of Ghana’s independence. This venture uses resources grown within the country to create delicious treats. ’57 hones in on Ghana’s Independence Day spirit and challenges the status quo that premium chocolate can only be made in Europe.

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Danso Kwabena

Joshua Praise — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 14:18:03 +0000

Danso Kwabena is the CEO of Booomers International, a subsidiary social enterprise of The Yonso Project, which produces and markets bamboo bicycles and accessories to both the Ghanaian and international markets.

The company manufactures different types of bamboo bicycles and their accessories – such as bicycle stands and baskets – to help improve transportation, youth employment, and mitigate climate change issues.

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