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Africa's Young Entrepreneurs Organization (A.Y.E.) is the foremost [1] entrepreneurship organization in Africa. A.Y.E unites and empowers entrepreneurs in Africa, by fostering social, intellectual, and financial connections thereby developing a generation of outstanding African entrepreneurs who will shape the economic landscapes of their home countries.
The U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) is an independent U.S. government agency established by Congress in 1980 to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs. USADF's investments aim to increase incomes, revenues, and jobs by promoting self-reliance and market-based solutions to poverty.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is an African non-profit organization founded in 2010 by Tony O. Elumelu and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. [1] It is a pioneer member of the Global Impact Investment Rating System (GIIRS). [2] So far, the Foundation has empowered over 18,000 African entrepreneurs across 54 African countries. [3]
Black entrepreneurs were primarily confined to initiating ventures in the service sector or manual labor fields, which typically offered low profits and restricted opportunities for expansion. Moreover, initiating businesses by slaves without the consent of their owners was prohibited, and any economic endeavors had to be carefully managed to ...
The event which has been organized in different African cities Accra, [44] Lagos, [45] Cape Town [46] and Nairobi [47] over the years, brings together the continent's entrepreneurs, investors, ecosystem players, and executives from across Africa and globally to discuss learnings, trends, challenges, and innovations on the continent. [48] [12]
The Harambe Entrepreneur Alliance is a US-based business network for African entrepreneurs that provides funding, university scholarships and a support ecosystem. [1] [2] [3] The Alliance was founded by Okendo Lewis-Gayle [4] and is supported by Cisco and the Oppenheimer Generations Foundation, [5] amongst others.
In 2012 She was featured on 'The 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes [29] also in 2012 she was nominated by the Guardian among Africa's Top 25 women achievers. In 2013, she was named the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year for Africa, and in 2014, she was awarded the United Nations Person of the Year for Kenya. [30] [31]
Damilola Emuze is a Nigerian businessperson, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ScholarX, a platform which connects high-potential students with funding opportunities. [1] In December 2019, Emuze was one of five female entrepreneurs to emerge as winners of a UK-Nigeria Tech Hub competition sponsored by the British High Commission in ...