March 08, 2022
Africa: Women Entrepreneurs Can't Get Access to Capital ... Unless Other Women Are Managing It
Around the world, it’s much more difficult for female entrepreneurs to get the funding they need to grow their businesses. The gender gap prevents women from reaching their… Read more »
February 24, 2022
Africa: EU-Africa Business Forum to Foster Partnership for Health Innovation and Skills Development in Africa
This past week, as African and European business leaders came together to discuss international collaboration to strengthen Africa’s economy and build back stronger from… Read more »
February 15, 2022
Africa: 'You Can Think Of Us as a One-Stop For All Pharmaceutical Needs in Africa'
Med-tech entrepreneur and Medsaf founder Vivian Nwakah spoke with AllAfrica's Sethi Ncube about how she's building her company to be a one-stop shop for all pharmaceuticals in… Read more »
Africa: We are the Future; Investors Should Be Scrambling to Partner With Us – Med-Tech Entrepreneur Vivian Nwakah
Losing a friend because of a fake malaria drug and inadequate healthcare services pushed Vivian Nwakah to take on the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria. In 2017 she founded the… Read more »
December 08, 2021
Sierra Leone: Entrepreneur Creates Clean, Affordable Energy for Sierra Leone's Rural Areas #AfricaClimateCrisis
Energy. Who has it, who doesn't, where it comes from and the consequences of its use are some of the greatest challenges we face. Read more »
November 23, 2021
Congo-Kinshasa: The Pitfalls to be Overcome for the Integration of the Congolese in the Value Chain of the Electric Battery Industry
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has all the potential to become an industrial hub for batteries and electric vehicles. To achieve this, the country of Félix Antoine… Read more »
November 17, 2021
Nigeria: 'It's Not Enough to Save Lives, We Must Do It Sustainably' - Temie Giwa-Tubosun | Transcript
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams talked with Nigerian entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, who not only built her healthcare, technology and logistics company Lifebank from the ground up… Read more »
November 16, 2021
Nigeria: The Vision That Drives Lifebank Founder Temie Giwa-Tubosun
"I don't sit here and say, back me because I'm a woman, I say back me because I'm doing something that is great, back me because we're going to be great. We're going to prove once… Read more »
December 14, 2020
Africa: How The Digital Revolution Can Help Level The Playing Field for African Women in Agriculture
The race to limit the spread of Covid-19 has, through necessity, accelerated many other transformations that were already under way, including the digital revolution in African… Read more »
August 14, 2020
Namibia: First Lady Monica Geingos Urges Youth to Study Power to Gain Influence
"Watch how your political allies fight their enemies. Be careful of your allies, who use dirty tactics and de-campaign others. One day, when they disagree with you, they will use… Read more »
July 15, 2020
Uganda: Clean Cooking - Mother's Illness Inspires Young Engineer's Business
Arthur Woniala was in his last year of university, studying mechanical engineering, when his mother developed severe respiratory disease, after years of being exposed to smoke from… Read more »
July 22, 2020
Uganda: Small Clean-Fuel Business Is Surviving Covid-19 through Adaptation - Founder Arthur Woniala
Ugandan engineer and innovator Arthur Woniala is passionate about people, entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions to everyday challenges. In 2007 with the help of two friends,… Read more »
Africa: How Google's Project Loon Can Improve Epidemic Preparedness
Twenty kilometers above the ground, giant balloons are hovering in the sky, providing high-speed internet spanning 50,000 square kilometers across central and western… Read more »
June 30, 2020
Africa: How Young Africans Find Innovative Solutions to Challenges Posed By COVID-19 Pandemic
June is Youth Month in South Africa, built around commemorations of the brave students in Soweto on 16 June 1976 who rose up against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of… Read more »
June 12, 2020
Africa: 20 Million Use COVID-19 WhatsApp Line - Focus on Health Workers is Next
Months after successfully launching COVID-19 Connect in South Africa and the World Organisation's global HealthAlert on WhatsApp, Praekelt.org is planning to launch a similar… Read more »
June 02, 2020
Africa: Moroccan-Designed COVID-19 Test Kit Internationally Approved
With a decade of experience in the development of diagnostic kits, the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation, and Research Foundation (MAScIR), a research and… Read more »
May 18, 2020
Kenya: Give Us Your Farm Throw-Aways; We'll Give Back Black Gold
Whether volunteering at local high schools in her community, educating boys about the importance of speaking out and building self-confidence or taking a summer course at… Read more »
Kenya: Safi Organics Turns Farm Waste into Black Gold and Poor Farmers into Entrepreneurs
Mary Rigo has been a spinach and tomato farmer for the past decade a few minute's drive from here in Kirinyaga county, where she owns a two-acre farm about one hundred kilometres… Read more »
May 01, 2020
Africa: Animated Series Shows Africa's Engagement With the World
Launched in 2019, the Ubuntu Series is an African animated series that gives an insider perspective of Africa's engagement with the rest of the world. The series is produced in… Read more »
April 21, 2020
Africa: Can African Tailors Help End COVID-19 Mask Shortages?
Tailors in Nigeria's Abia state are part of a continent-wide mobilization of citizens to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) needed for the fight against the spread of… Read more »
April 20, 2020
South Africa: Entrepreneurs Pioneer Rapid COVID-19 Test Kit
A COVID-19 test kit that provides results in a little over an hour has been created by entrepreneurs Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma of Cape Bio, reports Tech Financials. The pair are… Read more »
April 02, 2020
Africa: Three Studies Shed New Light on Scope of Human Evolution
Three new research papers have brought evidence that human evolution was a less linear process than previously theorised, according to Gizmodo's George Dvorsky. They also suggest… Read more »
March 17, 2020
Africa: Novel Coronavirus - How Close Are We to Treatment And Vaccine?
The new coronavirus, declared a pandemic on March 11 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) because of its global spread, and with more than 170,000 confirmed cases, according to… Read more »
March 09, 2020
Africa: Anzisha Prize - Developing Entrepreneurship Into a Career
"The most important thing we can all do when it comes to very young entrepreneurship is realising that we're all potential supporters of this work. If you're a parent you can… Read more »
February 20, 2020
Africa: We Can Make Our World Better - Mark Suzman of Gates Foundation
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams talked with Mark Suzman, the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropy. He assumed the position this month. In… Read more »