White House invitation in hand, I am honored to speak at the  Global Entrepreneurship Summit this weekend in Nairobi on the topics of innovation, navigating the funding cycle and entrepreneurial hubs.  Kenya is abuzz with excitement ahead of a proverbial homecoming for President Obama.  For all the temporary excitement that global summits evoke, GES2015 and the SPARK Global …

(CNN) – President Barack Obama will travel to Nairobi this week to address the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), and the first to be held in sub-Saharan Africa. This gathering of hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, nonprofits, and government officials, co-hosted by the governments of the United States and Kenya, will spotlight the growing importance of Africa …

If it goes according to plan, as it ought to, two words will best capture the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) which commences tomorrow in Ota, Ogun State: audacious and unprecedented.   A thousand emerging entrepreneurs from across Africa will converge on the Covenant University in Ota basically to partake in the knowledge acquisition and …

The article below is an excerpt taken from University of Cambridge Judge Business School‘s article Some Nigerian philanthropists have invested in management training, showing that this is already underway. For instance, Tony Elumelu, philanthropist and founder of his own foundation, is doing just that through his entrepreneurship programme. His philanthropy comes out of Africapitalism – a …

By Tony O. Elumelu, CON   Last Friday, I was proud to be a speaker during the second annual Conference on Inclusive Capitalism in London, led by the visionary and irrepressible Lady Lynn de Rothschild.  As I prepared my remarks for a panel held during the conference, I wrestled with the fact that capitalism that is …

The article below is an excerpt taken from Dele Momodu’s back page Pendulum column ThisDay , Saturday 26th June, 2015.   As I wrote last week, Nigeria needs to create thousands of new entrepreneurs in order to get out of the present economic quagmire that has made it impossible for too many Nigerians to have jobs. …