Leaders

VENTURES AFRICA – Famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died after a short illness at a US hospital, Associated Press confirmed on Friday. He was 82 years old. The news agency cited his publisher as the source of the sad news without disclosing the cause of death. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Achebe [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prof. Muhammad Yunus has partnered the African Development Bank to launch the Holistic Social Business Movement (HSBM), a programme both say is a social business project for Africa. The AfDB and the Yunus Social Business have selected Uganda, Tunisia and Togo as the beneficiary countries for [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – In a historic 2011 campaign, Kah Walla, an entrepreneur, activist and elected official in Cameroon, ran for the country’s Presidency. She was the country’s first female presidential candidate and she ran the ground-breaking ‘The Time is Now’ campaign as well as the Cameroon Ô’Bosso citizen movement to register voters and encourage electoral [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – “If women want more rights than they got, why don’t they take it and stop talking about taking it.” A century after these words were uttered by Sojourner Truth, men and statistics are quick to point out that women have heed her words. Indeed, history is filled with stories, tales and wit [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Award-winning Guinean activist, Rainatou Sow is the founder and executive director of Make Every Woman Count (MEWC), an organisation that promotes women and girl’s rights by putting it at the heart of the continent’s socio-economic development strategy. Although, a resilient activist since the age of 12, Rainatou was inspired to create her own gender-based [...]

VENTURES AFRCA – In order to compete in the global market, Africa must tap into its supply of intelligent, eager young people for future leaders, both in the government and the private sector. Being the most youthful continent, with 65 percent of Africans under 35 years of age, and over 35 percent between the ages [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Five participants of the Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellowship Programme will be featured on a new Al Jazeera English series titled Tutu’s Children which is designed to develop the young African leaders to become a ‘moral task force’ and tackle Africa’s major issues. The special documentary which will begin on January 10th 2013, and transmit for four weeks, [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Former SA president, the iconic Nelson Mandela, is currently receiving medical care at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg. This is according to the office of the current president, Jacob Zuma, which came under fire recently for not keeping the country updated with Mandela’s health progress. It is almost a week since Mandela [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – It was American football coach, Vincent Lombardi that said, “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” Today, there are many young Africans blazing trails across the continent and globally [...]

VENTURES AFRICA - Achumile Majija is a young, dynamic and talented African and youth leader living the African dream in the diaspora while paying close attention to his origin. As a youth leader, Ace, as he is sometimes called, has served as the Director of Inqubela Investment Holdings. He has also represented South Africa at the [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Last month, Johannesburg-born Jessica was awarded the “Rising Star of the Year” at the annual South African Business Awards, hosted by the South African Chamber of Commerce at SA House in London. Jessica works as the Network Development and Affiliations Officer with Democratic Alliance (DA) Abroad – Democratic Alliance being the main [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – There are several talented young leaders in Africa and Diaspora making positive change and making mama Africa proud. One of them is Yetunde Odugbesan, a young African business leader seeking positive leadership change especially for Africa and its female folks. Although she is based in the diaspora, Yetunde has been involved in several [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – What a year it has been! Since its launch in March, Ventures Woman has shared stories of inspiring women making headway in Africa’s dynamic economic environment. Despite significant economic and political upheavals in many African countries, these women, and many more unnamed, have strived, pushed and broken down barriers to succeed in [...]

VENTURES AFRICA – Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam, has been awarded the “African Business Leader of the Year” by the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) at an award ceremony which held in Washington D.C. with over 300 US and African Business leaders, in attendance. “I am honored by this award,” Tewolde said in his acceptance [...]

VENTURES AFRICA- Nigerian Nobel Laureate and Human Rights Activist, Prof. Wole Soyinka has been honoured as the first recipient of the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership on Wednesday. The prestigious award was instituted to honour Obafemi Awolowo, an inspirational Nigerian statesman, and reward leadership and good governance. According to the Chairman of the award Selection [...]