Archive for May 2017
Marketing: Tips and Tools for Reaching Your Target Market on Social Media
When getting a business off the ground, spreading the word to your target market is key to business success. After all, how will your target market know to use your services if they don’t know about it? Below we list some tips and tricks to help you reach more of your target market. Use Microsoft…
Read MoreWebsite Basics: A step by step guide on how to build your own website
Often times, people are convinced that creating a website is difficult. This is true but the internet has created many quick tips, processes and templates that make it easier to do it on your own. The Anzisha Prize recently encouraged the young entrepreneurs that they work with to learn how to create their own websites…
Read MoreGlobal Speakers Circuit: Thato Kgatlhanye serves as panelist for the Oxford Africa Conference
From May 18 to May 20, 2017 Thato Kgatlhanye had the opportunity to travel to London for the Oxford Africa Conference sponsored by her Anzisha Fellowship. Below, Thato shares her experience: “Now is not the time to think small. You need to move faster, do things better and more boldly. Refuse to do ordinary and…
Read MoreHow 25 year old co-founder of PrepClass secured a third of a million USD
Earlier this May, 25 year old Chukwuwezam Obanor, 2014 Anzisha Fellow and co- founder of PrepClass.ng notified us of his latest selection into the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund. Selection into this program for Chukwuwezam means grant funding of roughly 1/3 of a million dollars, technical assistance for his enterprise and the opportunity to partner…
Read MoreMeet beautiful 23-year-old who creates job for disabled people
Mabel Suglo says she started developing interest in building a shoe company at a very young age. She used to design and make shoes for her disabled grandmother.
Read MoreThere is no equation for doing business in Africa
After experiencing a ‘flawed’ education system, Clock founder, is using technology to build a better one
Read MoreHow a 17-year-old started a poultry business in the slums of dar es salaam
“I want to change the mindset that agriculture is only for those that do not have an education – because it is not. Gas and supply acworth ga Agriculture is for anyone.”
Read MoreWhat We Can Learn From Rural Innovators Like Ludwick Marishane
Innovation does not have to only come from major cities.
Read More2016 Most Influential Young Cameroonian
the Official 2016 Ranking of 50 Most Influential Young Cameroonians
Read MoreBanking on Youth
How are digital financial solutions helping start-up and scale-up entrepreneurship in Africa?
Read MoreAfrica’s Food Paradox
Africa is facing food shortages arising from droughts in Southern and Eastern Africa, locally produced food competing with cheap food imports in urban supermarkets, and the average farmer is 65 years old. How can African economies move beyond subsistence rain-dependent agriculture to accelerate food production that meets growing demand both at home and abroad?
Read MoreOpinion: Plastic revolution is here with us
Take for instance Thato Kgatlhanye and Rea Ngwane from South Africa who founded Repurpose School Bags, an initiative borne from the idea of providing affordable school bags to local children in their community.
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