Published on Nov 29, 2012
African Leadership Network introduces you to the winner of the 2012 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship "Outstanding Mature Business" category, SecureID. SecureID is Nigeria's foremost Smart Card manufacturing company. It is the leading Europay, MasterCard and Visa- certified card plant in West Africa, one out of only 6 on the continent and a member of the elite club of only 80 such companies in the world. SecureID provides comprehensive end-to-end payment, identity management and digital security solutions for the financial services, telecommunications, education, healthcare, petroleum and transport sectors.
Read moreSource: TEDx Soweto 2012 | Published on November 20, 2012
Anne Githuku-Shongwe uses the power of digital games to unlock the potential of young Africans throughout the continent. A mother of three children, she argues passionately and eloquently that it is through play and simulation that we can shift their most limiting belief systems and mental models.
Read moreVentures Africa features a fascinating article on Sibongile Sambo, South Africa's high flying aviation entrepreneur that is making waves in a traditionally male dominated industry. It appears, the sky's the limited for this tenacious and hardworking 'Lioness of Africa'.
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Read morePublished on Nov 12, 2012 Source: www.abndigital.com
PART 2: ABN's Chris Bishop is joined in studio by Margaret Hirsch, founder and COO of Hirsch's Homestores, to share the inside story of what it takes to get the entrepreneurial edge. The interview follows Margaret Hirsch being honored by her peers who named her winner of the entrepreneur section of the Business Woman of Year award 2012.
Read morePublished on Nov 12, 2012 Source: www.abndigital.com
ABN's Chris Bishop is joined in studio by Margaret Hirsch, founder and COO of Hirsch's Homestores, to share the inside story of what it takes to get the entrepreneurial edge. The interview follows Margaret Hirsch being honored by her peers who named her winner of the entrepreneur section of the Business Woman of Year award 2012.
Read moreIn this video published on Nov 7, 2012 as part of 'GEW Rwanda Video Series' Teta Isibo talks about inspiration & challenges of starting her business, Inzuki Designs!
Read moreArticle: Business Excellence Magazine
An artist’s mind knows no boundaries, so consider the dilemma and frustration of needing to reign in that creative spirit to accommodate the economic needs of running a viable business. That is the challenge Carrol Boyes has confronted head-on, as Andrew Pelis finds out....
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Read moreSource: All Africa, published on October 29, 2012
In recognition of its excellent business practice, SecureID Limited has been named the Most Outstanding Mature Business in the 3rd African Leadership Network Awards for Entrepreneurship.
SecureID, it stated, was recognised for its pre-eminence as a thoroughbred start-up of African origin, competing successfully in a global market.
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Read moreSource: African Leadership Academy | Published on October 25, 2012
Anne Githuku-Shongwe discusses the topic on 'Leadership' with the African Leadership Academy.
Read moreSource: IICD | October 16, 2012
African games for change guru Anne Githuku-Shongwe attended the cross media event PICNIC in Amsterdam at IICD’s invitation. Five questions for the founder of social African game enterprise Afroes....
Read moreSource: CNN Inside Africa, published on October 12, 2010
CNN's Nima Elbagir reports on a new breed of Nigerian designers taking fashion upmarket in the country. She interviews leading designer Deola Sagoe about Nigeria's fashion industry boom.
Read moreSource: 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.
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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.
Read moreSource: 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.
Read moreForbes Magazine featured Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu to their 'Africa's Most Successful Women' list for 2012.
Read moreWendy 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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Read moreSource: 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.
Read moreRead 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.
Read moreSource: 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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