The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) which was established in 2018 to create a single market for goods and services, was set up to promote and expand economic activities by facilitating trade through free movement of people. In March, TEF hosted the Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCTA), Wamkele Mene, to …
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Monthly TEF Circle publication from the Tony Elumelu Foundation
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High Hopes for the AfCFTA
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Meet the Selected Entrepreneurs
More than 150,000 Africans from 114 countries worldwide applied to join the 4th cycle of The Tony Elumelu Foundation’s 10-year, $100 million TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. Today, the Foundation announced the African entrepreneurs with the most innovative, high-potential business ideas. Meet all the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurs here Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Momar, T.
The Foundation has equipped me with certain business management principles which I credit for my ability to strategically grow my company and scale my projects across the continent. Before we joined the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, we had a turnover of $20,000-$30,000. We took the seed capital provided by the Foundation, invested wisely and we did …
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Ada, O.
Thank you Tony Elumelu Foundation for your belief in me when in 2012, you gave me an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to Nigeria’s development. As a Tony Elumelu Foundation Fellow, I had a fully funded position as the Senior Advisor to Akin Adesina, the then Minister of Agriculture, through an MOU with the Ministry. …
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Katherine, H.
Participation in the Elumelu Professionals Program (EPP) provided me with a wealth of new experiences and know ledge, particularly around the business climate in Nigeria. The experience has proven integral to my current work at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as well as my prior work at Kaiser EDP in South Africa and at the African …
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Lukas, N.
The Tony Elumelu Foundation did not only help to fund my business idea, their training has also helped to implement my idea more successfully. Their training and workshop fueled my ambition and equipped me enough to get my project going. Specifically, the foundation strengthen my project management skills including financial management skills that is imperative …
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Lawrence, H.
With the Seed capital from Tony Elumelu we have managed to finance our operational activities including overheads and allowances for staff. This has helped us to fully launch our operations and keep going when sales were still low. We also secured an operations vehicle for our installations team to enable them to be more effective …
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