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The 2015 AWP Network Power List

The 2013 AWP Network Power List The 2014 AWP Network Power List Be the change. Be Inspired. Be you. Recognizing (40) African women with powerful, inspiring and influential voices. Introducing Africa’s leading women! At the AWP Network, we aim to encourage more African women with powerful voices who will continue to create programs and policies…

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December 30, 2015

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Adenike Adeyemi, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Africa, African Women Power Network, Alice Aluoch, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, AWP Network, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, Bisila Bokoko, Blessing Okagbare, Catherine Samba-Panza, Chinwe Ohajuruka, Clarisse Iribagiza, Divine Muragijimana, Elizabeth Patterson, Gail Mawocha, Gina Din Kariuki, Hanna Tetteh, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, Ibukun Awosika, Inonge Wina, Iza Irame, Jennifer Riria, Joanne Mwangi, Leticia Osafo-Addo, Mary Olushoga, Mimi Alemayehou, Monica Musunda, Natasha Sideris, Neha Misra, Netumbo Nandi – Ndaitwah, Nigeria, Nigest Haile, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Nneka Isaac-Moses, Oley Dibba-Wadda, Rebecca Alitwala-Kadaga, Saara Kuugongelwa – Amadhila, Sandra Aguebor-Ekperuoh, Solome Lemma, Suzana Moreira, Tabitha Karanja, Tara Fela-Durotoye, Thato Kgatlhanye, The African Woman Power Network, Tope Oshin-Ogun
How One Company Defied the Odds and Is Grossing Almost $1 Billion in Nigeria (Part 2)

Patient Capital Tolaram entered the Nigerian market in 1988 but it took 20 years for the company to gross $100 million. Tolaram spent the first several years figuring out their profit formula. The company was patient for growth, but impatient for profit. Because market creating innovations enter uncharted and untested territory, entrepreneurs and investors…

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December 29, 2015

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Efosa Ojomo, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Forum for Growth and Innovation, growth, Harvard, idea, Indomie Instant Noodles, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Noodles, program, progress, Senior Researcher, small business, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tolaram, Tolaram Group, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
How One Company Defied the Odds and Is Grossing Almost $1 Billion in Nigeria

Nigeria in 1988 — Not a premier investment destination In 1988 Nigeria was not a premier investment destination. Life expectancy for the country’s 91 million people was 46 years; gross domestic product (GDP) was about $23 billion; GDP per capita was about $256; 78% of people lived on less than $2 per day; about 37% of people…

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December 22, 2015

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Africa, African youths, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Efosa Ojomo, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Forum for Growth and Innovation, growth, Harvard, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Noodles, program, progress, Senior Researcher, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tolaram Group, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Founder of AWP Network at Global Entrepreneurship Week in Lagos, Nigeria

Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. The Joan Agha Foundation (JAF) partnered with the Enterprise Development Centre at PAN-Atlantic University to organize Enterprise Women’s Day which took place on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at the Oriental…

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December 21, 2015

Business, Education, Events, Interviews

Adenike Adeyemi, Adesuwa Onyenokwe, Africa, African youths, Aisha Ahmad, AWP Network, business, business support, change, Chioma Agha, collaboration, competition, development, Diamond Bank, education, Enterprise Development Centre, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Goge Africa, growth, Henrietta Onwuegbuzie, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Joan Agha Foundation, Kate Henshaw, Lagos, Laila Jean St Matthew-Daniels, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, Nneka Isaac-Moses, program, progress, Risikat Akiode, Sandra Aguebo, Sandra Aguebor, small business, Sola Babatunde, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, The Lady Mechanic, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurship day, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, Youths
Looking for African Women Scientists and Technology Specialists

Are you a brilliant young female scientist or technologist doing globally relevant, locally impactful research and/or development? This application is open to Africans living both on the continent and around the world in all fields of science, including the social sciences and technology fields. The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an AIMS initiative in partnership with the Robert…

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December 18, 2015

Events

Africa, African youths, Africans, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Next Einstein Forum (NEF), Nigeria, program, progress, research, Robert Bosch Stiftung, scientist, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technologist, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Do You Have An Idea? Apply: GIST Tech-I Competition

Are you a scientist? An entrepreneur? A researcher? An innovator? A student? Are you just someone who has a great idea or a startup company and looking to change the world? Whoever you are, if you have a great idea then Tech-I is for you! Your idea or startup can be an invention, a product,…

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December 18, 2015

Events

Africa, African youths, agriculture, app, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, Energy, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, GIST Tech-I Competition, growth, healthcare, ICT, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Invention, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, product, program, progress, science, service, small business, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths
Hack For Agriculture – Uganda

#Hack4Ag aims to contribute to the transformation of the agricultural sector and youth engagement in agriculture through technology. The Hackathon is a collaboration between the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice (GFADR), the Government of Uganda and the Government of South Korea to develop ICT innovations and entrepreneurship in Ugandan agriculture. The Agriculture Cluster Development…

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December 18, 2015

Events

#Hack4Ag, Africa, African youths, agricultural, agriculture, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Farmers, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, South Korea, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Uganda, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, World Bank, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth engagement, Youths
Women’s Empowerment Handbook Cover Design Contest

CSW60 will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14-24 March 2016. For years, thousands of representatives from NGOs and women’s organizations worldwide, as well as interested individuals, have come together with governments to collaborate on women’s issues. The result of this UN session helps advance global human rights for…

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December 16, 2015

Events

Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, CSW60, designers, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, UN Women, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Empowering Entrepreneurs Across Africa

The second round of the $100m Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (TEEP) for emerging African entrepreneurs will open January 1, 2016. In 2015, TEEP empowered 1,000 African entrepreneurs – selected from over 20,000 applicants with startup investment, active mentoring, business training, an entrepreneurship boot camp and regional networking across Africa. Entrepreneurs with an average age range…

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December 11, 2015

Events

active mentoring, Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, business, business support, business training, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, empowerment, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, investment, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mentoring, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, Startup, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, TEEP, The AWP Network, Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths
Apply: 2016 VV Grow Fellowship

The VV GROW Fellowship is a one-year competitive program created to support growth-oriented women business owners and help them take their business and leadership skills to the next level. The program supports women-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), to set and achieve business growth…

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December 11, 2015

Events

Africa, African Women Power Network, African youths, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, Caribbean, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, Latin America, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Middle East, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, North Africa, program, progress, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, vital voices, Vital Voices Grow Fellowship, VV Grow, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths