Somachi Chris-Asoluka (CEO, The Tony Elumelu Foundation) Applications are now open for the 2024 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, targetted at African Entrepreneurs. TEF – Africa’s leading philanthropy focused onempowering African entrepreneurs – is looking for the most innoverhine business ideas across the African continent. The TEF Entrepreneurship Programme is open to entrepreneurs across Africa, either with new startup ideas or existing businesses that have been in operation for less than three years, operating in any sector. Successful applicants will join the over 9,000 current beneficiaries from 54 African countries, and receive business training, mentoring, a non-refundable $5,000 of seed…
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Shalom Lloyd (Founder, Naturally Tiwa Skincare) Shalom Lloyd, Founder of personal care brand, Naturally Tiwa Skincare has received a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award – the third highest ranking Order of the British Empire awards (excluding a knighthood/ damehood), behind CBE and then OBE. Ms. Lloyd made His Majesty the King’s New Year Honours List in recognition of ‘Services to International Trade and Women in Business’. The Naturally Tiwa product range creates all-natural skincare products for the whole family, which include nourishing body foods, scrubs and beard oils that contain only high-grade natural ingredients that…
🎥 @chimamanda_adichie ‘Mama’s Sleeping Scarf.’ the latest book from the stables of prolific and super-engaging writer, Chimamanda Adichie, has just been launched, in Lagos-Nigeria. This is the writer’s first children’s book. World-leading book Publisher, Harper Collins describes the publication: “Running with Mama’s scarf, Chino weaves together little incidentals of home life into a glorious celebration of the power of a mother-daughter relationship, and the gentle joys that build a perfect day. A joyful exploration of family life, written by one of the most outstanding contemporary authors of our generation, @chimamanda_adichie and illustrated by an exciting rising star @joelle_avelino Celebrating the launch of…
Justin Welsh 📸 Justin Welsh (self-described as ‘the diversified solopreneur, building his one-person business to $5M in revenue’) has just shared his eight best guesses on the creator economy headed into 2024:1. Top performers across the board will recognize an opportunity to make more money and have a much larger impact building their own brand & business than working for someone else. This will accelerate rapidly in 2024.2. At the same time, many people who have been spinning their wheels as creators for a few years (and failing) will give up and ditch social media altogether for mental health improvement.3.…
Nigerian, Zed Etentuk (Founder, Zed Grills), has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest barbeque marathon by an individual. Etentuk grilled for 90 straight hours, beating the previous record held by Jan Greef who had achieved 80 hours of barbequing, in partnership with Char-Broil, LLC. Greef’s record took place in Columbus, Georgia (USA), in April 2014, and was dedicated to raising funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. As at the time of this report, Etentuk had hit the 94-hour mark.
Eleora Ogundare (Founder, Eleora Beauty) 📸 Eleorabeauty.com Eleora Ogundare founded Eleora Beauty Inc. in response to the health challenges she was faced with. Born with sickle cell anemia, Eleora went through an excruciating stem cell transplant, as well as chemotherapy, which caused her to lose her hair. Despite successful intervention for her illness, having to live with hair loss caused Eleora’s self-confidence to plummet. But she dug deep, and instead decided to turn her challenges into action that would benefit anyone suffering the same dilemma as she had. 🎥 @eleorabautyinc With the help of her mother, she created the Eleora Beauty,…
Mohamed Gawish (Founder & CEO, iSchool) iSchool, an Egyptian startup that teaches programming to children of elementary to high school age, has secured $4.5m in a funding round led by Capital Ventures Wave, an Irish venture capital firm. The round also included UK Capital OneStop, Webit Network Investment, and Capital Oraseya, the investment arm of Dubai’s Integrated Economic Zone Authority. Team iSchool Founder & CEO of iSchool, Mohamed Gawish, said in a Facebook post that the funding will enable iSchool expand into six new markets in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as to scale up its technology…
Ejiro Akpokodje (Founder, Drister) 📸 EjiroAkpokodje Ejiro Akpokodje is an international student in the UK who has first-hand experience of the challenges faced by migrants and foreign students when it comes to accessing credit. He says: “It’s a common hurdle: you arrive in a new country, eager to establish yourself, only to find that your lack of local credit history forms a barrier to essential financial services”. And Ejiro is actively tackling the problem. He has just announced the early stages of his startup Drister, whose objective is to provide a solution that ensures students from around the world as well…
Edith Chekwube Ezema (Plant Scientist and Organic Farmer) 📸Edith Ezema Africa has 60 percent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, with the agriculture sector accounting for 35 per cent of the continent’s GDP, while employing more Africans than any other sector. So why does the continent spend a staggering US$78 billion of scarce foreign currency on food imports each year, with some countries such as Zimbabwe, Guinea and Sudan exceeding 100 percent of their annual foreign currency receipts? As countries across sub-Saharan Africa grapple with the challenges of sustaining high levels of economic growth, plunging commodity prices, and the effects of climate…
Wissal Ben Moussa (Founder, Sand to Green) Sand to Green Co-Founder & Chief Agricultural Officer, Wissal Ben Moussa, is well-known for her Moroccan startup which says it can transform a patch of desert into a sustainable and profitable plantation in just five years. Following an article about Wissal, published by The Africa Business Index, Gautier de Carcouët (Co-Founder & Chief Finance Officer) at Sand to Green) proudly corroborates: “Behind this portrait, Wissal is also: 👉 An extraordinary agronomic success, with the creation of a productive farm run using agroecology at the gateway to the desert, where nothing grows. 👉 dozens…