Archive for December 2019

By Daniel Mpala Ever come up with an innovative idea you were sure would turn into a great business? Did you stop pursuing it because you couldn’t get any funding to develop it? Last year, 21-year-old Zimbabwean accounting student and The Housing Hub founder Marvellous Nyongoro (pictured above) found himself facing a similar problem. Nyongoro, who is…

By Daniel Mpala For most software developers getting a job offer from a company like Microsoft is a once-in-a-life-time opportunity that one would literally be crazy to turn down. But this is exactly what 26-year-old Nigerian Chris Kwekowe (pictured above), the CEO and co-founder of Slatecube, did. In 2015, after completing a year of study at…

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs helped me get started, say cosmetics retailer By Daniel Mpala Switch Beauty founder 19-year-old South African Rabia Ghoor grew up surrounded by siblings and a father who were all entrepreneurs. She founded her e-commerce website which specialises in cosmetics at the age of 14. Ghoor (pictured above) says coming from…