Video: Lydia Hakizimana talks about how she started her book business Drakkar Limited

Source: Peseltz | Published on Mar 29, 2014

Akilah interviews Rwandan entrepreneur Lydie Hakazimana about how she started up Drakkar Limited.

Lydie Hakizimana is co-founder and Managing Director of Drakkar Limited, a  specialist reseller and distributor of educational textbooks. It all started back in 2006 when this avid bookworm decided to follow her passion and opened a small bookshop. Before long, her entrepreneurial instincts had her developing relationships with numerous publishing companies. Eventually, she struck a deal that was to be the making of her company with UK publisher, Pearson Education. Drakkar rapidly evolved into a leading educational textbooks reseller in Rwanda, becoming an important enabler of her country's vision for building a knowledge-based economy. Today, Lydie manages 45 employees and thirty part-time distributors covering the five provinces of Rwanda. Lydie has also added exclusive distributor deals with Longman, Heinemann and Penguin to her Pearson contract.

Read Lydie's full LoA Profile here.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-O8CGbM3ac