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August 7,2020

Lombola Lombola

Lombola Lombola is the founder of Bamboo express, a company that makes furniture from ecofriendly bamboo. Lombola Lombola started the company to empower the youth and women locally. Bamboo Express is solving the problem of deforestation, youth unemployment, and lack of income alternatives for rural women. They run a youth apprenticeship program and purchase 90% of …
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July 23,2020

Shatho Phakama

Shatho Phakama, an agripreneur from Botswana started Unique Waves Ventures (Pty) Ltd and formulated a maintenance ration for beef animals using locally available worms as a source of protein. Shatho aims to manufacture animal feed for all livestock using locally available resources hence making the feed cheaper and thereby helping farmers buy feed at a …
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July 23,2020

Samuel Ntshiwa

Samuel Ntshiwa is an entrepreneur in the Agri-business. He started Alosa Fish Farm using cage culture is an aquaculture production system where fish are held in floating net pens.
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July 23,2020

Kago Monggae

Kago Monggae is an agripreneur and founder of Kagos Bees, a Beekeeping Business aimed at the husbandry of social Honey Bees (apis mellifera scutellata) primarily for the Harvesting bottling and retail sale of Pure Honey; through sustainable and natural practices. Kago was sponsored by the AFDB in 2019.
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July 22,2020

Norbert Dazogbo

Norbert Dazogbo is an agripreneur and member of Societe Internationale de Negoce et de Realisation (SINERA). He completed his academic training in France in 1972 as an agronomist.
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February 25,2020

Momarr Taal

Momarr Mass Taal is the founder and managing director of Tropingo Foods, which is currently the largest processor and exporter of processed foods in the Gambia. Tropingo was founded in 2014 as a food processing company and they currently process and export dried mangoes and groundnuts from Gambia to different places around the world, such …
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February 24,2020

Olivia Onyemaobi

Olivia is the Founder and CEO of Pad-Up Creations, a social enterprise in Nigeria manufacturing chemical-free washable and reusable sanitary pads. Her company has provided over 1 million girls and women in 13 African countries with access to sanitary pads that will last them a minimum period of 1 year while creating 93 permanent jobs. …
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February 17,2020

Mavis Nduchwa

Mavis is the founder of found Chabana Farms, a successful agribusiness enterprise focused on the integrated farming of cattle, poultry, piggery, donkeys, vegetables, and horticulture. The idea for Chabana Farms was started when Mavis noticed the extreme problems her community was facing –lack of jobs for women and youth and frequent food shortages. The vision of …
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January 6,2020

Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki

Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki is an award-winning social entrepreneur, business development consultant and CEO of Fatara Farms – a business that specialises in providing low-in-come farmers with an affordable, accessible and easy comprehensive solar solution to use for their farming activities; Since receiving the seed funding from the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Fatara Farms has empowered 5,642 …
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December 18,2019

Joel Cherop

Joel Cherop is a Ugandan and beneficiary of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme. His agri-business, Ataari River Integrated Irrigation Initiative (ARIII), a horticulture and rice production venture identifies, trains and seeds young people to begin their own agri-business ventures in a model dubbed “Learn as you earn”. Since receiving seed capital from the TEF …
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