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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Adelard Kakunze Offers Mobile Technology To Diagnose Diabetes Via “Mdiab Burundi”
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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
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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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Lagos could shape up to be Africa’s Silicon Valley
Originally Published on Spear’s -3 November 2015 As commercially creative as it is chaotic, Lagos, with some UHNW help, is emerging as a sub-Saharan answer to California’s tech hub says Clementine Wallop. I am sitting in a co-working space, busy with articles and emails. Around me, on primary-coloured chairs in a bright room with a …
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TEF Turns 5!
Today, 29th October 2015, marks five years since the beginning of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). We’re thrilled to celebrate this landmark and celebrate the people that have brought this Foundation to life through their successes- our Alumni. Over the course of five years, we are proud to have run programmes geared catalysing entrepreneurship and …
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Tony O. Elumelu CON attends the IMF & World Bank Annual Meeting in Peru
Our founder, Tony O. Elumelu CON was in Lima, Peru to discuss the implementation of the post-2015 Development Agenda at the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, on October 11, 2015.
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My TEF Story: James Kariuki
Name: James KariukiCountry: KenyaSector: Clean cook stoves and fuel/Renewable sustainable clean energy. It has been great being part of the Tony Elumelu Foundation family, thanks to an awesome team and Chairman. I have received first class entrepreneurship training, my business plan has been professionally evaluated by Accenture, and I have a 1000 cohort mentor support …
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L’africapitalisme, des solutions africaines aux enjeux Africains
By Tony Elumelu, foundation president Tony Elumelu –October 7, 2015 at 7:23 p.m. Was this article first published in Libération Man Nigerian case Tony Elumelu defends the vision of an African economy driven by the private sector of the continent. Tribune. I had the honor a few days ago to participate in the United …
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Winning Wednesday with our Entrepreneurs
Congratulations to our entrepreneur, Runice Chikeruba from Nigeria who was just selected to attend the World Cancer Leaders’ Summit (WCLS) in Turkey. He is the only Nigerian youth selected to attend this global summit organized. He has also been invited to receive the SPARC MBC Grant Award in Lisbon, Portugal and would be receiving a …
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Africapitalism promotes African solutions to African challenges
By Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Just a few days ago, I was honored to be a guest at the United Nations in New York, to witness the ratification of the new Global Goals – successors to the Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000. This next set of global priorities, known as the Sustainable …
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