Day: May 29, 2023

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Nneile Nkholise

African Changemaker

Nneile Nkholise

Nneile is a South African mechanical engineer and social entrepreneur with a vision to transform Africa through technology.

Born in Lesotho, Nneile developed an interest in science and technology as a young girl. She is widely known for founding iMed Tech, a medical innovation startup which produces prosthetics for cancer patients and burns victims.

Nneile has since founded THOLA, an API-enabled platform providing a product-based peer-to-peer lending marketplace that enables consumers to lend working capital to small businesses by pre-ordering their goods and processing payment on the marketplace.

In 2016, she was recognized as Africa’s top female innovator by the World Economic Forum. A year later, the Office of the Presidency recognized her as the South African Youth of the Year.

 

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Ken Njoroge

African Changemaker

Ken Njoroge

Ken is a Kenyan tech entrepreneur, scale-up coach, and digital evangelist.

He is widely known for his role in co-founding Cellulant, a Pan-African fintech giant connecting entrepreneurs and innovators across Africa through seamless digital commerce.

Ken served as Cellulant’s Group CEO for more than 17 years, steering it to unprecedented growth, currently operating in 35 African countries with millions of end users.

As Cellulant’s founding CEO, Ken led the company from an idea sketched on a serviette in 2002 to a reputable company in Africa with more than 350 employees across 11 markets.

The Kenyan entrepreneur has since shifted his focus to Pani, a boutique investment firm empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem in Africa. His firm offers executive coaching and cash investments to promising founders in exchange for equity.

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Cina Lawson

African Changemaker

Cina Lawson

Cina is currently serving as Togo’s Minister of Posts, Digital Economy and Technological Innovation.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience and expertise in digital policy and telecommunication, Cina has led Togo’s successful transition to an inclusive digital economy.

Under her leadership, Togo became the first West African country to deploy 5G services. She has also played a prominent role in increasing digital service penetration in her country, with a majority of the population now having access to mobile telephony.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she spearheaded Togo’s flagship digital cash transfer program, “Novissi,” which delivered cash transfers to nearly a million of the poorest Togolese citizens.

To date, Novissi is hailed as one of the world’s most successful COVID-19 social protection programs. Cina has received international accolades for her work, including from the World Economic Forum, Forbes, and Jeune Afrique.

 

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Verone Mankou

African Changemaker

Verone Mankou

Mankou is widely recognized for his contribution to the development of Africa through smart innovations.

Born in Congo, Mankou is an engineer, entrepreneur, author, and speaker who designed the first African tablet, the ‘Way-C’ touchpad, and the ‘Elikia’, the first African smartphone.

He developed an insatiable passion for computer science at a young age before living his dream with the launch of his technology consulting firm, VMK.

Mankou founded the tech company in 2009 to tap into the growing African mobile phone market with products made in the continent to compete with the likes of Apple, Samsung and Blackberry.

His contribution to Africa’s technology and innovation growth has earned him numerous recognitions from Forbes, New African Magazine, and Choiseul.

 

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Eunice Ajim

African Changemaker

Eunice Ajim

Eunice is a Cameroonian American serial tech entrepreneur and investor with a mission of funding Africa’s future.

She is the founder of Ajim Capital, a venture capital firm based in the US that invests in early-stage technology startup companies in Africa. Before founding Ajim Capital, Eunice co-founded OpenTeams, an online marketplace that makes it easy for open-source users to connect and transact with service providers.

She believes that African entrepreneurs have the power to create valuable businesses using technology that compete on a global scale while massively changing the lives of Africans.

Eunice is also an executive with experience ranging from startup funding and management to leading a $10M+ tech startup. She has a track record of leading business organizations to profitable, market-winning positions in hyper-competitive environments.

 

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Razaq Ahmed

African Changemaker

Razaq Ahmed

Razaq is a Nigerian tech entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Cowrywise.

The startup provides investment management for Africans and enables access to savings and investment products securely.

Before founding Cowrywise in 2017, Razaq launched Sart Partners, an investment management and financial advisory firm that offered companies strategic, financial and industry expertise.

At Cowrywise, Razaq has led the startup to become one of the leading fintech platforms in Africa. The company is the first to be accepted into the Catalyst Fund program in Nigeria and has previously received support from JP Morgan and UK Aid.

 

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Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes

African Changemaker

Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes

Adesuwa is an entrepreneur, investor, and women’s empowerment advocate.

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management , a private equity fund with a mission to close the $42 billion #SME funding gap and gender investing gap in Africa.

Born in Nigeria, Adesuwa is one of the few African women who have created and managed an investment fund for African women entrepreneurs. With an extensive experience in the finance sector and a passion for promoting gender equality, she has focused on changing Africa’s narrative for female investors and female-led businesses.

At Aruwa Capital Management, she has facilitated job creation and delivered long-term positive social and economic impacts on the continent. Adesuwa’s contribution to women’s empowerment has earned her recognition, including being named an Agent of Impact by Impact Alpha. She was also recognized as one of the Top 35 Women Moving Africa Forward for her commitment to gender equality in private equity.

 

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Henri Nyakarundi

African Changemaker

Henri Nyakarundi

Henri is a Rwandese social entrepreneur, speaker, author, mentor, and Pan-Africanist.

Born in Rwanda, Henri grew up in Burundi before he moved to the United States to study computer science. After years abroad, he returned home to drive change in his country and Africa.

Henri believes that the antidote for poverty is inclusive education and economic opportunities, a belief which pushed him to found ARED GROUP INC . ARED Group operates at the intersection of deep tech technology and renewable energy by providing green solutions to expand digital access and electricity connectivity in Africa

Henri is also a well-respected voice on entrepreneurship in Africa, renewable energy, innovation, and technology impact. As a social entrepreneur, he played a pivotal role in shedding light on some of the challenges in the African marketplace and offered alternative solutions.

 

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Gugulethu ‘Berita’ Khumalo

African Changemaker

Gugulethu 'Berita' Khumalo

Berita, as she is fondly known, is a Zimbabwean-born singer, songwriter, and music producer.

Passionate about women’s empowerment and social enterprise, the multi-award-winning music artist is helping African women to build sustainable careers and businesses in music and to make the music industry safe and conducive for women. She is doing this through a partnership with the Wits Business School and the Southern Africa Trust, Women of Music Business.

Berita’s program trains female artists, creators and managers in financial management, philanthropy, and social investment. The program also gives them networking opportunities to develop skills to build sustainable careers and businesses within social entrepreneurship.

Berita is also the founder of the Women of Music Business (WOMB), a pan-African women empowerment organization in the music industry. Her successful music, a combination of Afro Jazz and contemporary pop, has won multiple awards in the past.

 

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