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SEED Award winner Kwaku Yamoah Kyei: ‘Social entrepreneurship is the future’
The annual international SEED Awards recognize inspiring social and environmental entrepreneurs. Last month Ghanaian entrepreneur Kwaku Yamoah Kyei fr…
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VC4Africa and the emergence of an African startup culture
VC4Africa was started in 2008 and has since grown into a healthy and thriving network of entrepreneurs and investors. After experimenting with free co…
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Promising entrepreneurs in Africa seek to be Unreasonable
The photo is of Mark Yeboah-Agyepong – he is the Aquaculture Operations Manager for Waste Enterprisers Ltd Entrepreneurs from 60 countries vied …
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Info160: Location based advertising via SMS in Kenya
Also in the new year new ideas are coming in via the VC4Africa website. Let’s now meet the young Kenyan entrepreneur Nick Hargreaves Onyango,
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REPORT – What happened at the first VC4Africa meetup in Accra?
Joshua-Derek Bossman tweeted Friday night, ‘Just leaving the #VC4Africa meetup. All I can say is WOW! A real pleasure meeting up with @Abocco, E…
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EarlyLife Online Radio: A Pan-African platform for the youth
Also in the new year promising business ideas are coming in via the VC4Africa website. Let’s meet Ugandan entrepreneur Grace Atuhaire who is currently
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VC4A Infographic – Let’s make 2012 the year of the Entrepreneur!
At VC4Africa we believe in the potential entrepreneurship has to change the world. At the end of the day, it is the individuals who
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VC4Africa looks back on the progress made in 2011
I think it is fair to say that 2011 was a good year for the VC4Africa community. What originally started as a Linkedin group
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VIDEO – Dambisa Moyo, Africans want to be entrepreneurs
Erin Burnett interviewed Dr. Dambisa Moyo, the author “Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa.”
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VIDEO – Mohamed Ibrahim, founder of Africa’s telecommunications revolution
We wanted to end the year with a collection of some of the greatest thinkers and doers of our time. This week we are