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January 15, 2019
As a follow up to my post about Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's talk, I wanted to focus on one area she touched on, i.e. the nervousness around doing business in Africa because of the perceived corruption all over the continent.
As she rightly points out, Africa is a conti...
November 15, 2018
According to the #MasterCard Index, #Africa has the world’s highest rate of women entrepreneurs at 27%. In fact, two African countries, #Uganda (34.8%) and #Botswana (34.6%), have the highest percentage of women #entrepreneurs in the world.
There is also a rise in the...
July 5, 2017
I watched a fascinating Ted Talk a couple of days ago which is a 10 year old talk from all the way back in 2007. It was absolutely brilliant and I hadn't even realised till the end how old it was! It was fascinating, and I found myself reflecting on whether the messa...
June 23, 2017
There's SO MUCH creativity in Africa and among the diasporan community that left the continent. What was termed the 'brain drain' saw many of the continent's brightest leave because of various reasons from lack of opportunity to perception of better opportunities. Th...
May 18, 2017
Johns Hopkins grad from Nigeria wants to help hospitals in West Africa go digital. OneMedical, founded by WSE alum Adegoke Olubusi, is among 15 finalists in Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge
For so many reasons, I just LOVE this! There is so much power and benef...
November 29, 2016
Meet Moses. Moses has a spirit larger than life and a personality that shines like sunbeams. Moses is what Africa is all about. Entrepreneurship, persistence, effervescence!
Disabled by polio at 8, Moses is a tailor who worked in a factory for many years in South Afr...
October 11, 2016
"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas; thought by thought, choice by choice" Oprah Winfrey.
Banksy... Willi Dorner... Gogo Mahlangu... IYASA... What do their styles have in common? Absolutely nothing. That's the beauty of art!! It's personal a...
July 16, 2015
When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother what I would be... No I didn't. The whole "que sera, sera - whatever will be, will be" thing didn't work for me. I was and still am more of an "it will be what you make it" type of person. I actually always had the p...
June 25, 2015