Tony Elumelu, the whiz kid of a good number of banking boardrooms appears to be living life anew. In fact, it seems like yesterday that this audacious whiz kid banker led the medium-sized Standard Trust Bank into an ambitious merger with United Bank for Africa. This cemented his corporate credentials across the African continent in …

VENTURES AFRICA – O presidente da Heirs Holdings e fundador da Fundação Tony Elumelu (TEF), Tony Elumelu, afirma que a sua fundação aumentará o número de subvenções anuais disponibilizadas para start-ups que desenvolvem aplicações de conteúdo local, que resolvem os desafios de África, de 20 para 50.

In another big move, one of Africa’s most influential entrepreneurs, Tony O. Elumelu (CON) has announced a 5-year endowment (support package) of The Future Africa Awards prizes. Recognized by the World Bank last year as ‘The Nobel Prize for Young Africans‘, The Future Awards Africa, which is in its 8th season, is presented in partnership …

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are essential to growing African employment and GDP. In high-income countries, SMEs represent a high share of economic activity, a large share of employment, and bring informal business activity into the formal economy. Yet, a severe lack of financing is limiting the ability of African SMEs to grow and …

Aid for business in Africa – In this article, which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Tony O. Elumelu asserts that the traditional approach to solving Africa’s problems through aid has created a cycle of dependency. A better approach, he says, is to use donor subsidies to fund private, for-profit ventures.

Tony O. Elumelu, CON, fala ao Citypress da África do Sul sobre investimento de impacto e desenvolvimento de África a longo prazo