This article was originally published here. If you are allergic to fanfare, you’d better bolt your doors and shutter your windows on September 25, because there is going to be a lot of it that day in the vicinity of the United Nations, when world leaders ratify the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. This is a …
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Solar Fields, Sexist Poverty and a Modern Marshall Plan – Bono, U2
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Obama and the era of Afri-preneurship – Dante Disparte
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 …
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Why Obama’s Kenya visit might be a turning point for African entrepreneurship – Tony O. Elumelu CON
(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 …
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The sense in Elumelu’s boot camp – Steve Ayorinde
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 …
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University of Cambridge Judge Business School Endorses TEEP
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 …
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A Peek Into The Life of An Africapitalist by Bolanle Omisore
Friends! You can’t imagine where I’ve just come from. I know you know I work for Tony Elumelu, and I know you know I travel with him often, spreading the word of Africapitalism, but I feel I have to tell you the details of what we did this past weekend; where we went and who we …
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Rethinking Capitalism: The Africapitalist Perspective
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 …
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Dele Momodu endorses TEEP
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. …
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Tony Elumelu’s Entrepreneurial City Tour
Late last year, I was invited by The Economist magazine to submit an article for their annual “Year In” series. I ended up writing a thought-provoking piece that made predictions about issues I felt would be most impactful on the global stage and from my perspective in Africa, in 2015. My prediction was that 2015 …
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Emerging Global Entrepreneurs Event at the White House
Shadi Sabeh’s Photo Blog On the 12th December 2012, I became a part of the Tony Elumelu Foundation by receiving the Tony and Awele Elumelu Legacy Prize as the best performing M.Sc graduating student at Usman Dan Fodio University. Since then, my life has transformed for the better. In the same year, I founded the …
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