On 27 November 2015, The Tony Elumelu Foundation held its final Tony & Awele Elumelu Prize (TAEP) at the highly prestigious University of Ghana, Accra. Ranked the best University in West Africa, the University of Ghana is the oldest and largest University in Ghana with a student population of 40,000+ students. It was an honour …
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TAEP Final Convocation- University of Ghana
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NO VISA: QUANDARY OF THE AFRICAN ENTREPRENEUR
-Written by Onajite Emerhor As an African born and bred woman, I am encouraged by the new wave of positive stories about Africa, but having first-hand experience of some of the difficulties our continent faces, it is clear that we cannot ignore areas that require vast improvement. Chief among these is the lack of interconnectivity …
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Interview: What Drives The Young African Entrepreneur, With Samuel Malinga
Originally published on Ventures Africa Many young people across Africa are setting up their own businesses by innovating new products and services or reconfiguring old ones. One of them is Samuel Malinga. Last week, the 26 year old Ugandan received the Tony Elumelu Prize for Business at the Future Africa awards for his development of …
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Nigerian business moguls offer help to fledgling entrepreneurs – FT
By Andrew Jack As Hauwa Katena, from Nigeria’s north western city of Kaduna, began researching how to overcome barriers to the expansion of her designer African women’s clothing business at the start of this year, she turned like so many others to the web. She came across the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, and by April …
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The Economic Philosophy of Africapitalism
What Is Africapitalism? “The future we all want for ourselves is one of our own making.” – Tony O. Elumelu, CON Africapitalism is the economic philosophy developed by our Founder and Chairman, Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, CON, and is predicated on the belief that Africa’s private sector can and must play a leading role in the …
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The Tony and Awele Elumelu Prize Goes to Guinea
As we’ve previously announced, The Tony and Awele Elumelu Prize for Academic Excellence is soon to be discontinued to allow a focus on entrepreneurship through the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). However, as we close-out this programme, we continue to have meaningful sessions with our awardees and respective Universities and have experienced first-hand the impact …
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Lagos could shape up to be Africa’s Silicon Valley
Originally Published on Spear’s -3 November 2015 As commercially creative as it is chaotic, Lagos, with some UHNW help, is emerging as a sub-Saharan answer to California’s tech hub says Clementine Wallop. I am sitting in a co-working space, busy with articles and emails. Around me, on primary-coloured chairs in a bright room with a …
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TEF Turns 5!
Today, 29th October 2015, marks five years since the beginning of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF). We’re thrilled to celebrate this landmark and celebrate the people that have brought this Foundation to life through their successes- our Alumni. Over the course of five years, we are proud to have run programmes geared catalysing entrepreneurship and …
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L’africapitalisme, des solutions africaines aux enjeux Africains
By Tony Elumelu, foundation president Tony Elumelu –October 7, 2015 at 7:23 p.m. Was this article first published in Libération Man Nigerian case Tony Elumelu defends the vision of an African economy driven by the private sector of the continent. Tribune. I had the honor a few days ago to participate in the United …
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Africapitalism promotes African solutions to African challenges
By Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Just a few days ago, I was honored to be a guest at the United Nations in New York, to witness the ratification of the new Global Goals – successors to the Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000. This next set of global priorities, known as the Sustainable …
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