Originally published on Ventures Africa Many young people across Africa are setting up their own businesses by innovating new products and services or reconfiguring old ones. One of them is Samuel Malinga. Last week, the 26 year old Ugandan received the Tony Elumelu Prize for Business at the Future Africa awards for his development of …
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Interview: What Drives The Young African Entrepreneur, With Samuel Malinga
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Winning Wednesday with Runcie Chidebe
Our entrepreneur, Runcie Chidebe, Founder of Project Pink Blue, was among the eight young people below the age of 40 selected to attend the Young Leader at World Cancer Leaders’ Summit in Istanbul. He was recently awarded with this prestigious global award based on my social enterprise and community work in cancer control in Nigeria. …
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Tony & Awele Elumelu Prize Presentation Ceremony At University Of Ghana
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Winning Wednesday with Zion Oshiobugie
On today’s episode of #WinningWednesday, we present you our entrepreneur, Zion Oshiobugie, CEO of Clever Mind Learning Center in Delta State, Nigeria. Clever Minds Learning Center’s goal is to provide quality education for poor communities in Delta State and beyond. They are set to open their first school in Edjeba community, in Warri, Delta state. …
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Nigerian business moguls offer help to fledgling entrepreneurs – FT
By Andrew Jack As Hauwa Katena, from Nigeria’s north western city of Kaduna, began researching how to overcome barriers to the expansion of her designer African women’s clothing business at the start of this year, she turned like so many others to the web. She came across the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, and by April …
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The Economic Philosophy of Africapitalism
What Is Africapitalism? “The future we all want for ourselves is one of our own making.” – Tony O. Elumelu, CON Africapitalism is the economic philosophy developed by our Founder and Chairman, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, CON, and is predicated on the belief that Africa’s private sector can and must play a leading role in the …
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Winning Wednesday with Adekunle Gafar
We present to you this week’s winning Wednesday entrepreneur, Adekunle Gafar, CEO of ToonWalk Studios. See recap of the TEF bootcamp from his eyes here Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Adelard Kakunze Offers Mobile Technology To Diagnose Diabetes Via “Mdiab Burundi”
Originally published on Akeza Adelard Kakunze, a young Burundian entrepreneur was selected for the 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program and is the Founder of a mobile technologies start-up for health. His project aims to assist in the detection of risk factors for diabetes using the mobile. Adelard’s mobile application will be operational after tests in two health …
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Winning Wednesday with Joyce Awojoodu
Our entrepreneur Joyce Awojoodu, CEO of Oriki Global & Synergy Limited uses natural resources around the world to create her line of beauty products. See why she is featured on our winning Wednesday series here Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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The Tony and Awele Elumelu Prize Goes to Guinea
As we’ve previously announced, The Tony and Awele Elumelu Prize for Academic Excellence is soon to be discontinued to allow a focus on entrepreneurship through the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). However, as we close-out this programme, we continue to have meaningful sessions with our awardees and respective Universities and have experienced first-hand the impact …
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