the pride of Africa's women entrepreneurs
Source: HOTM Channel Nigeria | Published on March 13, 2014
HOTM profiles doctor, pilot and healthcare entrepreneur Dr. Ola Orekunrin. She is the CEO of Flying Doctors, a medical emergency unit which has helped save lives through prompt emergency response and air transportation of patients across the West African sub-region. Ola shares her story about returning to Nigeria to start a business and how she has been transformed by the experience.
Read morePublished on Mar 11, 2014
Founder of Yeigo Communications and ReKindle, Rapelang Rabana, talks about the start of her journey in forming her business and she also gives some great advice to young South African entrepreneurs out there.
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Source: Vogue Italia, published 02/03/2014
She was the first black woman to present a collection at Alta Roma back in 2004 and has been in the Nigerian fashion game since 1989. In a quarter decade of time, Lagos-based designer Deola Sagoe has established herself as the leading lady of Nigerian fashion, armed with a clientèle that ranges from Africa's first ladies, to society girls like Lydia Hearst and top model Alek Wek....
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Source: Maison D' Exception | Posted on February 24, 2014 by Pascal Gautrand
For twenty years, textile designer Aïssa Dione has been directing one of the few enterprises in Senegal that weave fabrics with locally-grown cotton according to ancestral know-how. Her mission of building a production chain that is truly, 100% 'Made in Senegal' is outside of the norm in a country where exporting raw materials is the primary activity.
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TechTrends, the Zambian web-based Technology Publication recently attended the Bongohive Insaka in Lusaka who hosted as their guest speaker Monica Musonda, the founder and CEO of Java Foods, a Zambian based food processing company known for it’s highly affordable ‘eeZee’ brand of noodles.
Read their interesting article in which Monica shares some of the best ways for any start-up business to progress and stresses the need for one to have passion in whatever business you want to start.
Find the TechTrends article here.
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Uche Pedro is named one of the '30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs In Africa in 2014' by Forbes.
Read moreSource: SABC Digital News | Published on Jan 30, 2014
Established in 1992, Jenna Clifford Designs was established back in 1992 and has grown to become a brand of style and luxury. The initial focus was exclusively on jewellery design, but today the brand has grown to include four innovative brands: Jenna Clifford Fine Jewellery, Renaissance Jewellery by Jenna Clifford, Jenna Clifford Homeware and Jenna Clifford Trophies. So even 2 decades later, the jewellery is still designed by Jenna Clifford herself! Who is this creative lady and how has she build her empire? Hosted by Tshepang Motsekuoa.
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Source: Business Day, January 27, 2014
Kofo Akinkugbe, chief executive, Secure ID, a relatively young firm creating MasterCard and Visa, operating in 16 African countries, is an example of a chief executive that is succeeding based on innovation. Speaking at a forum recently on innovation on the CEO’s agenda, Akinkugbe urged business owners to build capacity that will sustain the creativity, that is, developing the capacity of employees....
Read morePublished on January 16, 2014
CNN interviews Rapelang Rabana, the Founder of Rekindle Learning and Yeigo, about Rekindle's learning and mobile and internet technology.
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Source: Forbes | 2 January, 2014
Swaady Martin-Leke, an Ivorian entrepreneur, prides herself as a custodian of Africa’s rich culture and history. And she preserves it with style. After an eventful, highflying 11-year career at GE, where she held leadership positions in several divisions across the world (including acting as the Director for Sub-Saharan Africa of GE Transportation and acting-CEO for GE South Africa Technologies), she decided to follow her passion for African culture & heritage and founded YSWARA, a growing home-grown African global luxury brand.
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Wits Business School Journal has recognised Wendy Ackerman in its feature 'South Africa's 30 Wonder Women'.
Wendy Ackerman’s husband Raymond may have made a success of Pick n Pay, but she didn’t establish her name in business by hanging on his coat-tails. She was instrumental in developing the brand, particularly its social responsibility ethic.
Read moreSource: CNBC Africa | Published on December 11, 2013
CNBC Africa's 'Women on Wealth' show chats to Jenna Clifford to discuss some key wealth-generation factors that all women entrepreneurs should be aware of and can capitalize on.
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Julie Meyer MBE, Chairman and CEO of Ariadne Capital, Founder Entrepreneur Country
In Welcome to Entrepreneur Country, Julie Meyer takes an up-close and highly personal look at the unique DNA of an entrepreneur – the passion, the insight, the commitment, and the willingness to back an idea or a business concept to the hilt, working around the clock to make it a reality.
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Source: Entrepreneur Magazine | Posted December 5, 2013
Jenna Clifford is featured in Entrepreneur Magazine's 'Success Stories', interviewed by Juliet Pitman.
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Monica Musonda, founder and CEO of Java Foods, Zambia
Check out the Forbes list featuring Monica Musonda.
- Monica Musonda, is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Java Foods in Zambia.
Read morePublished on Nov 27, 2013
The growth and development of businesses in the 21st Century hinges on the strategic engagement of creativity and capacity into the models that guarantee sustainability of operations and service delivery. This is pivotal to Small Medium Enterprises, that are drivers of the economy. In this discourse on 'Creativity and Capacity' for Businesses from the FBN SME CONNECT conference Mr Seyi Oyefeso Group Head Retail, First Bank engages leading enterpreneurs Mrs Kofo Akinkugbe, Mrs Ndidi Nwuneli, Mr Audu Maikori on this important topic.
Read moreSource: TEDx Talks | Published on Nov 20, 2013
Watch Nkem Begho giving her talk - "Redefining Education" at TEDxLagos 2013
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Source: African Review | November 9, 2013
While the idea of flying doctors and air ambulances in East Africa is almost taken for granted, in West Africa the concept has only just taken off thanks to the work of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) and Dr Ola Orekunrin, who Stephen Williams met with recently to find out more about her life in the air...
Read the full article here.
Read moreSource: HOTM | Published on Nov 2, 2013
Nkem Begho, founder and managing director of Futuresoft is interviewed by Heart of the Matter. She chats with Pastor Wale Adefarasin, looking at Nigeria's education sector in retrospect and the place of Information Communication Technology as a catalyst for change.
Read moreSource: EmergingStars TV | Published on 31 October 2013
Gahaya Links is for-profit Rwandan handicraft company based on the simple principle of women economic empowerment through fair-trade. "The vision of Gahaya Links is to empower rural communities to become entrepreneurs and earn better incomes to live with dignity among their communities."
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