Tag: African youths

• Apply: 2018 Zambezi Prize for Innovation in Financial Inclusion (MIT)

  

  The prestigious competition, awarding a total of $200,000 in prizes, was established to discover Africa’s most promising and innovative early-stage start-ups that promote and advance financial inclusion on the continent. The Zambezi application is now open for early-stage African tech start-ups who are furthering financial inclusion in Africa. Applicants will be judged on their ability…

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  March 13, 2018

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• Apply: FemBioBiz II Accelerator Program in South Africa

  

  The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum in partnership with the NEPAD Southern Africa Network for Biosciences is looking for ambitious female leaders in bioscience-focused businesses who would like to grow their businesses through an accelerator program, and gain regional exposure and access to international markets. The program targets female entrepreneurs with a business involving biotechnologies and…

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  March 13, 2018

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• Apply: $1 Million African Entrepreneurship Award

  

  The 4th edition of the African Entrepreneurship Award is now open. This initiative aims to support talented entrepreneurs from Africa or Africans in the diaspora whose ideas create jobs and improve lives on the continent. The African Entrepreneurship Award, initiated by its President Othman Benjelloun, shows BMCE Bank of Africa’s ambition to foster entrepreneurship in Africa by…

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  March 12, 2018

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• Up to €1 Million Available for Green Startups

  

  The 12th edition of the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge has kicked off. Green start-ups from all over the world can submit their green business plans. There is a total of €1 million in combined prize money available for the five best start-ups, of which €500,000 is intended for the winner. Selection Criteria: should have the potential…

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  March 6, 2018

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• $25k Available When You Join CCHub’s Incubation Program

  

  Looking to grow your tech startup from Nigeria? The Incubation program at CcHUB takes a hands-on approach to help entrepreneurs execute a working business model and grow a sustainable business. Our goal is to help the entrepreneur(s) properly structure their business, ensure consistent growth and access funding to build a lasting global entity. Startups that are…

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  March 6, 2018

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• Apply: 2018 Entrepreneur of the Year Competition

  

  The Entrepreneur of the Year® competition is an annual competition that recognises and honours South African entrepreneurs in the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) sector. The competition celebrates excellence in entrepreneurship to inspire others to venture into and succeed in the world of business. South Africa reportedly has low levels of total entrepreneurial activity and as…

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  March 6, 2018

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• $50k Available When You Join Africa’s Edtech Incubation Program

  

  Injini is the first EdTech incubator program on the African continent. It is the only opportunity for EdTech entrepreneurs based anywhere in Africa to get industry specialist mentoring, support, scale up and funding introductions, and early stage funding.  Injini selects a cohort of start-ups from across Africa every six months, invests in them and gives…

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  March 6, 2018

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• Win €25,000: Apply for the Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East

  

  Applications for the 8th Orange Social Venture Prize in Africa and the Middle East are now being accepted. This prize, awarded by Orange, rewards innovative projects based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) which improve the living conditions of people in Africa and the Middle East in fields such as education, healthcare, farming, mobile payments or sustainable…

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  March 1, 2018

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  Africa, African youths, awards, AWP Network, Botswana, Bulles Magazine, Burkina Faso, business, business support, Cameroon, Cameroun, Cape Town, CAR, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, Democratic Republic of the Congo, development, DRC, education, Egypt, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, FoodoGraphy, girls, growth, Guinée Bissau, Guinée Conakry, Guinée Equatoriale, Guinea Bissau, Guinea Conakry, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Jordan, Lagos, leadership, Liberia, Ma Tontine, Madagascar, Mali, marketing, Mary Olushoga, MedTrucks, mobile technology, Morocco, Morrocco, my voice matters, Nanoé, Niger, Nigeria, Orange Social Venture Prize, program, progress, Senegal, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, Tunisia, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, Youths

• When I Left KPMG to Start My Business, I Only Had $10 In The Bank – Founder of Audeo Nigeria Tells Her Story

  

  Abimbola Bamigboye sat with the AWP Network to discuss her business, what inspired her to start and her plans for the future. How did you arrive at your business name?  Audeo is a Latin word, which means, “I dare” in English. It could also mean “venture” amongst other translations. I first saw it in a novel…

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  February 27, 2018

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• Call for Articles and Artwork – Center for Feminist Foreign Policy

  

  The theme for the second edition of the print journal ‘Disrupted’ is ‘post-colonialism and foreign policy’. What does this mean? Well that is up to you! It could be a post-colonial analysis of Indian Foreign Policy, or it could question how post-colonialism can help understand Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy? Or, maybe a post-colonial feminist analysis…

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  February 27, 2018

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