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Power to the people: Empowering Africa’s entrepreneurs

Feb 23, 2023
36:21

Lots of people talk about empowering African entrepreneurs, about enabling young Africans to build their own futures. Tony Elumelu stumped up $100 million of his own money to actually do it. The results are remarkable. The thousands of budding business owners who’ve passed through the Tony Elumelu Foundation’s entrepreneurship program have created hundreds of thousands of jobs, according to a PwC analysis.

In this episode, we talk to Somachi Chris-Asoluka as she takes over as CEO of the foundation about the real impact empowering entrepreneurs can have, as well as her vision for the future. Spoiler alert: We need more people and organizations to step up.

Prepare to be inspired!

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