Tony Elumelu meets a climate-action beneficiary of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Program. I am a proud Nigerian and a proud African. I am also a philanthropist and ...

Across Africa, women are starting businesses at some of the highest rates in the world. They dominate informal trade, drive household resilience, and increasingly lead high-growth ventures in sectors ...

The Anzisha Prize (https://AnzishaPrize.org) has revealed their top 26 entrepreneurs for 2021. The entrepreneurs, who are between the ages of 18 and 22, will each receive more than US$5,000 in funding ...

The Tosin Olatujoye Foundation has unveiled plans for the maiden edition of the Africa Real Estate Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2026 (AREEB), a two-day industry gathering aimed at reshaping the future of ...

Many experts suggest using the entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE) approach to help grow Africa's economy, especially in poorer countries. EE looks at how things like roads, money, rules, and skilled ...

At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA79) in New York, Dr. Tony Onyemachi Elumelu, a renowned banker, philanthropist, and founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), championed the urgent need ...

Dr. Stephen Akintayo is Forbes Best of Africa Leading Investment Coach and Real Estate Mogul. Chairman and Founder, Gtext Holdings. Africa holds vast untapped potential and a growing spirit of ...

While respect for and adherence to culture and values are deeply embedded in African society, the tendency for deference and not challenging authority or convention harms entrepreneurship on the ...

From the 1960s to the mid-1980s, Western-owned or Western-controlled financial institutions governed Africa’s banking system. In 1985, everything changed when Gervais Koffi Djondo co-founded the ...

Africa already has too many entrepreneurs, with the high self-employment rates associated with lower GDP per capita. So, boosting entrepreneurship would not be effective for Africa’s economic growth.