the pride of Africa's women entrepreneurs
Source: Reporters 365, published October 12, 2012
Mrs Kofo Akinkugbe, on Thursday in Accra, Ghana, won the “2012 Africa Award for Entrepreneurship” for her contribution to socio-economic development of the continent. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Akinkugbe bagged the 100,000 dollars prize in the Outstanding Mature Business category.
Read moreSource: Ndani TV | published on Sep 24, 2012
Tara Durotoye is the Founder and CEO of House of Tara the Makeup company which came up with amazing brands like Okpeke foundation, Fura lipstick, Efunsetan lip gloss, Adumadan powder and lots more. In this edition of Platinum Standard she tells us how she started House of Tara, her experience on Arise Fashion Week, the impact of the business and Tara products.
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Source: IGIHE.com | Published on September 17, 2012
Drakkar is working in cooperation with the Rwandan Education Board (REB) and the Educational Development Center in three districts in the Southern Province in Rwanda. The project’s goal and theory of change are to encourage a culture of reading in Rwanda by: providing support to, and training of, school-based mentors to improve teachers’ instructional practices, including through the incorporation of read aloud approaches; Increasing access to Kinyarwanda storybooks in targeted schools and local bookstores; and developing local capacity to produce Kinyarwanda stories, including through a national story writing competition designed to develop a children’s book market for authors.
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Forbes Magazine featured Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu to their 'Africa's Most Successful Women' list for 2012.
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Wendy Ackerman provides a fascinating insight into the makings of a retail giant and what drives her to keep on working when others might have thought of retiring, especially when it comes to her many philanthropic causes.
Source: The Independent on Saturday, September 8 2011, by Lyse Comins
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Source: Ventures Africa | August 30, 2012
Lydie Hakizimana, who started a bookshop in 2006 that expanded into her company Drakkar Ltd, struck a deal with UK publisher’s Pearson Education to resell their textbooks in Rwanda and Burundi.
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Read this fascinating article on Divine Ndhlukula featured in Ventures Africa on August 11, 2012
Very little is ladylike about the security industry, yet Ndhlukula has successfully shifted the industry paradigm from male dominance, leaving her mark as a leader among peers. She says to women: “If you want a certain future, go out and create it. Conquer your fears as that is what enslaves most women.” Divine began creating the future she wanted in 1998 and has certainly had many reasons to be enslaved by fear along the way.
Read morePublished on Aug 8, 2012
A Women's Day message from Pam Golding, Founder and Life President of the Pam Golding Property group. Pam provides some wonderful insights and words of wisdom certain to inspire all women entrepreneurs.
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Source: Business Day, author Doug Gordon, 6 August 2012
KHANYI Dhlomo is the kind of business executive that movies are made about. Now 35, she's taken 15 years to graduate from media princess to publishing entrepreneur. Today, empowered by an MBA from Harvard and close analysis of the magazine business via interviews with the likes of Conde Nast powerhouse Jonathan Newhouse, her own fledgling Ndalo Media company is taking wing in the digital era... Read the full article here.
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Source: RNW Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Published July, 29 2011
Designer and entrepreneur, Aissa Dione, has made it her mission to revive Senegal’s ailing textile industry. Her solution - go to the high-end of the global market. She has cut out a niche for herself by supplying hand crafted fabric to the world's most exclusive interior design companies.
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Source: The South African, author Nicole Holgate, 16 July, 2012
Former TV celebrity Khanyi Dhlomo has been named one of Africa’s top five women entrepreneurs by Business Insider for her current work in print and online publishing....
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Susan Mashibe, founder of Via Aviation, Tanzania
Source: Forbes | July 9, 2011
Many years ago in Tanzania when Susan Mashibe was four years old, she remembers watching her parents take off in an airplane while she was left behind with her grandmother. “At that point,” she determined, “I decided if I knew how to fly, I would never be left behind again.”....
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Read this fascinating interview with Divine featured on BBC Network Africa, and its African Dream show on 6 July 2012.
Securico, the company that Zimbabwe's Divine Ndhlukula started in her cottage in the late 1990s with four employees and very little capital, has become one of her country's largest security firms. According to her, perhaps the biggest barrier she had to face when she set it up was her gender.
Read moreSource: Capital Talk | published on Jul 30, 2012
Keroche Breweries Limited Chief Executive Officer Tabitha Karanja discusses a 15 years journey of founding Keroche Breweries Limited, sharing the ups and downs and challenges she has been through.
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Njeri Rionge has established a special awards programme and summit for Kenya’s budding entrepreneurs - the Ignite Scaling Your Business Upwards. The new Awards and Summit offer local SMEs and upcoming entrepreneurs the opportunity to network with their peers and industry leaders, and to learn how to expand and grow their companies. The Ignite Scaling Your Business Upwards Summit will be held on 18-19 September 2012 at The Junction Mall, Nairobi.
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The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship announced today that Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu , founder and CEO of soleRebels, has received the Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of The Year Award at the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa
Read moreSource: Uganda Investment Authority | Uploaded on April 28, 2011
Julian Omalla talks about how she started Delight Uganda Limited and its range of 'Cheers' branded fruit juices to moving on to diversify her business interests into farming, agri-processing and real estate. A truly inspiring woman entrepreneur!
Read morePublished on Feb 8, 2011 by The Entrepreneurs Show sponsored by Telkom
Carrol Boyes has turned a passion for functional art into a major business brand. In this video she shares how it all started.
Read moreCarrol Boyes opens her home to the Top Billing television show and shares her treasured art and sculpture collection from which she derives much of the inspiration for the functional art pieces for which she has become so famous.
Read moreSource: KTN Kenya | published on February 6, 2011
KTN's Money and Power programme features Kenya's femme fatale of business, Tabitha Karanja. Her's is a David and Goliath type- story. When she first opened her distillery, many thought she was crazy to enter the brewing business which was then a monopoly of the East African Breweries Limited. The challenges were many, but she has managed to rise to become an industrialist while running a billion shilling brewer that's still growing. KTN's Cynthia Nyamai spoke to Tabitha Karanja about "the money and power".
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