Tag: entrepreneurs
Global Trade Leader Abu Kamara Speaks at 2022 COMCE Summit in Mexico City
After the success of Grovara Food Week in Dubai, global trade leader Abu Kamara shared insights on the digital trade panel at the annual COMCE Summit. The two-day event held on 1-2 ...25 Agro-Processing SMEs in Sierra Leone benefit from USD 1.3 Million Covid-19 Relief Fund Grant
The Sierra Leone Agro-Processing Competitiveness Project (SLAPCP) has provided USD 1.3 million grants to 25 small and medium enterprise agro-processing enterprises as a relief fund to help businesses continue with the Covid-19 ...Meet the top 20 finalists for the 2020 Anzisha Prize
The organizers of Anzisha Prize has on Thursday, September 17, 2020, announced the top 20 finalists of this year’s prize. The annual award which promotes young aspiring African entrepreneurs whose businesses are ...Sierra Leone Events: Makeni Business Forum 2015 is on May 30 at UNIMAK
[highlight]PRESS RELEASE[/highlight] On Saturday 30th May 2015 ALTIS, the Graduate School Business and Society of the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and the University of Makeni will resume the first edition of ...APPLY NOW: Richard Attias’ 100,000 Euro African Start-Up Award
Richard Attias, Founder of the New York Forum Institute and the NYFA, has created the African Start-up Award in partnership with Le Point Afrique and France24. The Award will support talent and the ...Ethical Fashion Spotlight: Bureh Belts made in Sierra Leone now on ETSY
Three years ago Daniel Heyman was the younger half of a duo of expatriate researchers dubbed the ‘Hardy Boys’ in Freetown. Today Heyman an MBA candidate at MIT Sloan Business School, ...African Innovation: In Lagos, the okada gets an upgrade to the Tricycle-Limo
Two 25-year-old Lagosians Ibrahim Adekunle and Shola Omoniyi are makers of the Tricycle Jeep and the Tricycle Limo, ‘okada’ inspired rickshaw commonly known as a Tuktuk. The wheels are now on display at ...Money to be made in Ghana’s Sewage (video)
Entrepreneurs in Ghana are trying to use garbage from Accra’s sewers to produce fuel to meet a government commitment to get 10% of its electricity from alternative energy by 2020. Waste Enterprisers ...Five startups in Sierra Leone win $23,000 each in tech, agriculture and more (photos)
Mobile toilets, dried fruits, and lemon grass soaps and oils will soon be available in Sierra Leone courtesy of a national grant making competition that awards start-ups after a rigorous business plan ...Entrepreneurs from Ghana build bespoke shoe brand one heel at a time
Like most young Africans his age 28-year-old Fred Deegbe still lives at home with his parents in Tesano a suburb in Ghana’s capital of Accra. His bedroom is adjacent to the garage ...
