{"id":9873,"date":"2019-12-06T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2020-06-17T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:02:04","slug":"tony-elumelu-dedie-le-prix-aabla-du-philanthrope-de-lannee-aux-jeunes-entrepreneurs-africains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/news\/tony-elumelu-dedicates-the-aabla-philanthropist-of-the-year-award-to-young-african-entrepreneurs","title":{"rendered":"Tony Elumelu d\u00e9die le prix AABLA du philanthrope de l&#039;ann\u00e9e aux jeunes entrepreneurs africains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, South Africa, December 5, 2019 \u2013 Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and Chairman, Heirs Holdings and United Bank for Africa Group, received the All Africa Business Leaders\u2019 Awards (AABLA) yesterday in Johannesburg. In the acceptance speech delivered by Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Elumelu dedicated the award to young African entrepreneurs, commending their drive to succeed against all odds.<\/p>\n<p>Organised by CNBC, the AABLA Awards  \u201cPhilanthropy Award\u201d category seeks to identify and recognise individuals for their exemplary and unique contributions towards the social and economic development of Africa. According to the organisers, the recognition was attributed to African entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu for his outstanding moral and financial investment in Africa, and his support of young African entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving the award on behalf of Mr. Elumelu, Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu commended entrepreneurs for their spirit of achievement and excellence. In her acceptance speech, she said: \u201cThis award is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of young African entrepreneurs who apply to the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme every year. They are the true heroes of our continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tony Elumelu Foundation, an African private-sector-led philanthropy focused on empowering African entrepreneurs, has thus far empowered over 7500 entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries with seed capital, business training and capacity building skills needed to scale their businesses. The goal is to empower young African entrepreneurs to create millions of jobs and revenue on the continent, tackling poverty and extremism, and creating economic hope in underserved communities while contributing to the overall advancement of the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>The Tony Elumelu Foundation recently announced that it will open its annual call for applications for the new cohort of entrepreneurs on January 1, 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup\">\n<form id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" class=\"validate\" action=\"https:\/\/tonyelumelufoundation.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=5f02da89231e2ddbb3148e957&amp;id=2a6469920a\" method=\"post\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" novalidate=\"\" target=\"_blank\">\n<div id=\"mc_embed_signup_scroll\">\n<h2>Subscribe<\/h2>\n<div class=\"indicates-required\"><span class=\"asterisk\">*<\/span> indicates required<\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-field-group\"><label for=\"mce-EMAIL\">Email Address <span class=\"asterisk\">*<\/span><br \/>\n<\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"mce-EMAIL\" class=\"required email\" name=\"EMAIL\" type=\"email\" value=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-field-group\"><label for=\"mce-FNAME\">First Name <\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"mce-FNAME\" class=\"\" name=\"FNAME\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mc-field-group\"><label for=\"mce-LNAME\">Last Name <\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"mce-LNAME\" class=\"\" name=\"LNAME\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-responses\" class=\"clear\">\n<div id=\"mce-error-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"mce-success-response\" class=\"response\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups--><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; left: -5000px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><input tabindex=\"-1\" name=\"b_5f02da89231e2ddbb3148e957_2a6469920a\" type=\"text\" value=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><input id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"button\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Subscribe\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/downloads.mailchimp.com\/js\/mc-validate.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function($) {window.fnames = new Array(); window.ftypes = new Array();fnames[0]='EMAIL';ftypes[0]='email';fnames[1]='FNAME';ftypes[1]='text';fnames[2]='LNAME';ftypes[2]='text';fnames[3]='MMERGE3';ftypes[3]='text';fnames[4]='MMERGE4';ftypes[4]='text';fnames[5]='MMERGE5';ftypes[5]='text';fnames[6]='MMERGE6';ftypes[6]='text';fnames[7]='MMERGE7';ftypes[7]='text';}(jQuery));var $mcj = jQuery.noConflict(true);<\/script><br \/>\n<!--End mc_embed_signup\u2014>\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg, Afrique du Sud, le 5 d\u00e9cembre 2019 \u2013 Tony O. Elumelu, CON, fondateur de la Fondation Tony Elumelu (TEF) et pr\u00e9sident de Heirs Holdings et du groupe United Bank for Africa, a re\u00e7u hier les All Africa Business Leaders&#039; Awards (AABLA). \u00e0 Johannesbourg. Dans le discours de remerciement prononc\u00e9 par Ifeyinwa Ugochukwu, PDG de la Fondation Tony Elumelu, Elumelu a consacr\u00e9\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,59,18,63],"tags":[67,208,150,209,126,48,49],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-english","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-african-entrepreneurs","tag-african-entrepreneurship","tag-empowering-african-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship-forum","tag-tef-alumni","tag-tony-elumelu-entrepreneur","tag-tony-elumelu-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonyelumelufoundation.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}