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Tanzanian entrepreneur bringing his travel startup home

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AFC: 11 Kenyan Women Entrepreneurs Making Inspiring Waves across Africa

With the growth of the Kenyan entrepreneurial ecosystem, so has been the rise of female-owned businesses and establishment. This has been driven more by the creation of women-centered policies and programmes for empowerment like the Women Enterprise Fund and women led accelerators and boot camps. But even with these developments, there’s still some resistance and barriers women entrepreneurs are facing when setting up their business. Nevertheless, there’s a new breed of women who have embraced these challenges and propelled against the resistance to create vibrant and thriving businesses in the region. Today, we look at 11 young and intelligent women entrepreneurs who are not just innovating their idea into success but contributing immensely to the growth of the ecosystem. From beauty, Fintech, social enterprises and even human resource, these women have defied the norm to become the ultimate inspiration for business in Kenya and Africa as a whole. 1. Catherine Mahugu – Found

AFC: The biggest game changer in African fashion is the internet

Written by Nosmot Gbadamosi, CNN Contributors: Henrik Pettersson, CNN An increasing number of designers on the continent are morphing from small tailor businesses into recognized and respected fashion houses, thanks to the internet. In 2014, when Beyoncé was spotted wearing a skirt and jacket from South African brand Kisua , it sold out in days. The musician's stylist had come across the brand online. The internet is a great leveler," says Kisua's Ghanaian founder Samuel Mensah. "The speed with which you can access markets and can generate awareness about your brand is unprecedented in the history of fashion." The e-commerce platform, launched in 2013, sells its own clothes and collaborates with other designers to create collections for its label. It was born out of Mensah's travels around the continent as an economist. When overseas, friends would create wish lists for him. "Next time you are in Senegal or Nigeria or Kenya please bu

AFC: The start-up that matters the most- Agriculture

By: Carl Manlan, COO, Ecobank Foundation Agriculture is the future of work in Africa. This may seem counter-intuitive, and, to be sure, technology will play a critical role to ensure that 12 million Africans entering the job market every year find their fulfillment along national, regional, continental and global value chains. Established technology start-ups like Alibaba, Airbnb, Amazon, and Youtube created platforms to capture economic value. Those riding the wave of these startups in Africa are disconnected from where the value lies on our continent: agriculture. Agriculture was the foundation that sprung into manufacturing then industrialization in North America, Europe, and Asia. That was the path taken to transform economies. In Africa, we started along that trajectory and then we got caught into development that held the promise that Africa would catch up. We did not. In the process, agriculture lost its importance. " In Ghana, the average cocoa farmer i

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