Africa: Honouring Africa's Social Entrepreneurs

24 April 2008

Lagos — Leading African social entrepreneurs with innovating solutions for the world's most urgent social problems would be honoured in Dakar, Senegal next month in what is expected to be a defining moment for the continent. The organisers, Ashoka since 1981, have elected nearly 2,000 leading social entrepreneurs as fellows. Its primary objective is to create communities of innovators while on the other hand, build a vibrant citizen sector that supports those creating changes in the world today.

Ashoka Country Director, Lesley Gene Agams, while briefing the media said twenty leading social entrepreneurs from Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Mali, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe will be inducted as Ashoka Fellows on May 9 in Dakar, Senegal.

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