(CNN) -- Teta Isibo had always had a flair for design but she didn't realize she could make a career out of it until the time she asked an artisan to craft a pair of earrings she'd drawn.
Read moreSEV Magazine interviews Rwanda's young design star Teta Isibo
SEV Magazine recently interviewed Teta Isibo, the creative mind behind Inzuki Design a dynamic young Rwandan brand specializing in jewelry, accessories and interior decor hand-made primarily from local materials.
Read moreWAAFRIKA Online profile Teta Isibo and her Kigali based startup Inzuki Designs
Inzuki Designs is a company based in Kigali, Rwanda founded by the creative, Teta Isibo, specialising in African beaded accessories like earrings, bungles, clutches, and interior decor which is hand-made from primarily local material.
Read moreEntrepreneur Advice from Teta Isibo: Build a business around your passions
Do something you love, or are good at....
"Do something that you either really love or you are really good at (or both) otherwise it’s easy to just give up when things get hard which they usually do."
- Teta Isibo is the creative mind behind Inzuki a dynamic young Rwandan brand specializing in jewelry, accessories and interior decor hand-made primarily from local materials. With no background in fashion or business, Teta quit her job as an urban planner with the city of Kigali to start her own business. Today Inzuki (bees in the local language) is part of a wider Rwandan cultural Renaissance.
Read moreEntrepreneur Advice from Teta Isibo: There's no need to fear Failure
Don't get hung up on failure....
"Failure would be if I stopped trying, otherwise, it’s just a mistake which I learn from and try again…It’s a trial and error learning process."
- Teta Isibo is the creative mind behind Inzuki a dynamic young Rwandan brand specializing in jewelry, accessories and interior decor hand-made primarily from local materials. With no background in fashion or business, Teta quit her job as an urban planner with the city of Kigali to start her own business. Today Inzuki (bees in the local language) is part of a wider Rwandan cultural Renaissance.
Read moreEssential Read: Thrive (The third metric to redefining success and creating a happier life) by Arianna Huffington
In Thrive, Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post and one of the most influential women in the world, has written a passionate call to arms, looking to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world. She challenges women to forget about the glass ceiling – "let's change the system altogether by redefining the very meaning of success."
Read moreEssential App: IDoneThis – celebrate and share what you're getting done
IDoneThis – makes our Essential App List for staying on track with your work or projects. It's really simple to use giving you a daily prompt to celebrate or share what you've actually managed to get done that day. A positive alternative to all those 'To-Do-List' apps that somehow manage to fatigue and demotivate us all. We use it at LoA and have grown to love it!
Read moreVideo: Teta Isibo featured on CNN African Start-Up
Video: CNN African Start-Up, June 27, 2014
Featuring Teta Isibo the founder of Inzuki Designs, a Kigali-based startup that specializes in jewelry, accessories and interior decor.
Every week, African Start-Up follows entrepreneurs in various countries across the continent to see how they are working to make their business dreams become reality.
Read moreVideo: Teta Isibo
Published on May 8, 2013
Teta Isibo introduces the products of Inzuki Design which was one of the businesses represented at Rwanda Day Boston.
Read moreVideo: Teta Isibo
Video published on September 21, 2013
Teta Isibo is the the founder of Inzuki Designs based in Kigali Rwanda. She a retail store and online design business selling her own designs made by local women cooperatives, including vases, earrings, shoes and bags. Grow Movement placed her with a volunteer consultant in the USA called Mimi NG. Together they have worked on building the model for Teta's export to the USA business. They had the opportunity to meet in the USA when Teta was sponsored as the Rwandan entrepreneur of the year.
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Video: Teta Isibo
Quote of the Day
"I have a philosophy; I question my intention, why am I living in this world? It is tough, and it gets lonely. The harder you work, the lonelier it gets."
- Sibongile Sambo is a pioneering woman of South African aviation. She is founder and Chief Executive Officer of SRS Aviation Ltd., the first 100 percent black, female-owned aviation services company in South Africa. Launched in 2004, SRS is an integrated provider of private aviation services offering South African and international clients professional and personalized flight options including VIP Charter, tourist charter and helicopter services, to destinations around the world. Today, the company also provides maintenance, sales and fleet management services to private jet owners.
Read moreMeet the Boss: Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Holding
Dr Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Holding
Source: How We Made It In Africa | by Dinfin Mulupi | 9 July 2014
‘Meet the Boss’ is a How we made it in Africa interview series in which they pose the same 10 questions to business leaders across the continent. Here, they interview Dr Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Holding
Read moreEntrepreneur Advice from Tabitha Karanja: Don't shy away from competing with men in business
Ladies, don't by shy about competing with men in business....
“This is the 21st century and what a man can do a woman can do. It’s time we showed them through action”
- Tabitha Karanja is founder and CEO of Keroche Breweries. She is one of Kenya's leading entrepreneurs, a remarkable trailblazer and an example of a woman made good against all the odds. Tabitha chose to venture where none before her had dared. She took on an 87-year-old business monopoly and entered an industry with a deeply entrenched male gender stereotype. Tabitha broke the mould to become Kenya’s first home-grown beer and alcoholic drink manufacturer. Today, her company's state-of-the-art factory produces 10,000 bottles of gin and ready-to-drink vodka, as well as 15,000 bottles of beer per hour.
Read moreVideo: Tabitha Karanja - a true Lioness of Africa who took on Kenya's decades-old beer brewing monopoly
Source: CNN African Voices
Watch this against all odds story of this 48-year-old entrepreneur who has painstakingly turned the first Kenyan-owned brewery into a lucrative business. In the process, she had to succeed where others had tried and failed in the face of an entrenched monopoly.
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Swaady Martin, founder of YSWARA
Tara Fela-Dorotoye tells the Nigerian story at the New York Forum Africa
Source: Modern Ghana | published 27 June 2014
The Chief Executive Officer of House of Tara International, Tara Fela-Durotoye, has begun taking the message of Nigeria's massive business opportunities across the globe - making premium appearances on several global platforms including the New York Forum Africa (NYFA), France24 and Africa 24 by Reuters.
Read moreVideo: Sibongile Sambo - pioneering woman of aviation - is interviewed by Wisdom Exchange TV (Part 1/4)
Source: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 24, 2014
Part 1 Expertise ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
Read moreVideo: Sibongile Sambo - pioneering woman of aviation - is interviewed by Wisdom Exchange TV (Part 2/4)
Source: Wisdom Exchange TV | Published on Jun 24, 2014
Part 2 - Philosophies ... Wisdom Exchange TV takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, introducing a pioneer in the aviation industry. Sibongile Sambo is the Founder and Managing Director of SRS Aviation, the first 100% black female owned aviation company providing professional and personalized flight options to destinations around the world.
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