Africa’s women entrepreneurs are powerful agents for change

A huge number of studies show that Entrepreneurship and Democracy are closely linked. Democracy works best when there is this kind of turbulence in the society, when those that are not already well-off have a chance to climb the economic ladder by using their brains, their energy, and their skills to improve their economic status, to create new products and markets, or to serve existing markets better than their older competitors. Simply put, entrepreneurs are a key building block of thriving democracies and the links between women’s economic empowerment, women’s entrepreneurship, and democracy are well known. In Africa specifically, women entrepreneurs uniting as a collective, speaking with one voice, must realise that they can become powerful agents for change in their countries, their communities, and on the continent as a whole.