Updated: Apply here for $5000 in the 2025 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneur Programme. Learn more Lagos, Nigeria: The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, has opened applications for the 2022 TEF Entrepreneurship Programme on www.TEFConnect.com African entrepreneurs with business ideas or existing businesses under 5 …
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Curacel is Addressing Insurance Inclusion in Africa Through Technology
As of 2019, Africa’s aggregate insurance penetration rate was only 2.78%, compared to the global average insurance penetration rate of 7.23%. This low penetration and adoption of insurance in Africa led Henry Mascot, 2017 TEF Alumnni, to establish Curacel to drive insurance inclusion in emerging markets across the continent. Curacel Systems, an AI-powered claims management …
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Iyin Creative Is Preserving And Promoting Africa’s Rich Cultural Heritage
In Nigeria today, priority is placed more on teaching children in English language, as it is the lingua franca of the country. However, this automatically creates a challenge as these children grow into adults who are unable to speak their local dialects and know very little about their cultural heritage. Iyin Creative, an innovative animation …
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Pad-Up Creations is Revolutionising Menstrual Hygiene Management in Africa
A recent study by UNESCO shows that in Africa, one in every 10 girls misses school when menstruating, mostly because of the inability to afford menstrual products. This has a significant impact on their education and general quality of lives as young girls. Olivia Onyemaobi, 2016 TEF Alumna, is addressing this issue through her business, …
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Dochase Is Fast Becoming Africa’s Digital Advertising Backbone
What had initially started as a sheer love for computing for the fresh University graduate, Chibuike Goodnews, 2015 TEF Alumni and CEO, Dochase, has since grown to become a pan-African data and internet company that facilitates connection between businesses and customers and connects everyday people with products they love, need, and want. Dochase is a …
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Built Accounting Has Impacted Over 5,000 African Businesses
When asked about his motivation behind the establishment of Built Accounting, 2018 TEF Alumna and Co-founder, Edward Neequaye narrated the story of how he had encountered a large number of young people outside a betting company in a small village of Karaga, in the Northern region of Ghana. “What if these youth can be trained …
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The “Imposter” that stole Christmas
All my life, I have struggled with imposter syndrome. Growing up, I was always the youngest, the tallest, the scrawniest, and then my adult years took me to new places where I constantly felt out of place and never thought I was qualified to be included. Imposter syndrome, this crippling, overwhelming and suffocating feeling, has …
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Selected Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs for 2021
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Heirs Insurance, Heirs Life Assurance Partner with the Tony Elumelu Foundation to Provide Insurance Coverage for TEF Entrepreneurs
Digital insurance companies, Heirs Insurance Limited (HIL) and Heirs Life Assurance (HLA) have extended simple insurance plans to the beneficiaries of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). Targeted at minimising business risks, the bundled insurance package comprises elements to protect business owners against the loss of property and lives, providing financial security in times of uncertainties. …
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Creating The Future: My Keynote Remarks At The 2021 Institute Of Directors (IOD) Annual Conference
On Tuesday, I had the honour of giving the keynote speech at the 2021 IOD Annual Conference, a flagship event attended by captains of industry and directors of both private and public sector institutions. I found the theme ‘Creating the Future: Deepening Corporate Governance Practice Through Multi-Sectoral and Multi-Generational Collaborations’, quite instructive and spoke extensively …
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