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Scale: How two businesswomen moved to fix Africa’s card issuing crisis.
South African fintech infrastructure company – Scale is tackling the painfully slow, expensive process of issuing payment cards. The current reality for African fintechs is brutal. Issuing cards …
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At Ndovu, Radhika Bhachu is helping Africans grow their wealth.
Radhika Bhachu is the co-founder and CEO of Ndovu, a Kenyan fintech startup revolutionising access to local and global financial markets. Ndovu is a digital investment platform offering …
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Sethebe Manake is making real estate make sense for Botswanians with Gosmartvalue.
Sethebe Manake is improving how Botswanians access property value by making real estate data simple, fast, and affordable through her PropTech platform, Gosmartvalue. Property is one of the …
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WeTech: How two sisters built a platform empowering Nigerian women in tech.
WeTech, co-founded by Gabriella and Flora Uwadiegwu, is flipping the script on Nigeria’s male-dominated tech scene by equipping women and girls with the skills, funding, mentorship, and community …
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Doreen Omosele—the woman giving Nigeria’s commercial sex workers a second chance.
Doreen Omosele leads the Blossom Girls Outreach Foundation, which rescues, rehabilitates, and empowers women and girls to leave the sex trade through holistic programs in counselling, skills training, …
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How Camille Rebelo co-founded a scalable solution to deforestation and rural poverty
Kenyan-born environmental entrepreneur Camille Rebelo is the co-founder of EcoPlanet Bamboo, a company quietly changing how we fight climate change, protect forests, and lift rural communities out of …
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OSAZ: Osazomon Imarenezor innovates melanin-rich skincare with AI and data.
Osazomon Imarenezor is using AI and skin-specific data to help beauty and pharmaceutical brands create personalised skincare products tailored to melanin-rich and historically underserved skin types. Born out …
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Pollicy—How Neema Iyer is rewriting civic tech with feminist data, and digital tools.
Neema Iyer is transforming African civic systems by using feminist data, technology, and art to make them more inclusive, accountable, and designed for the people they serve. Iyer …
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Meet Juliet Anammah, Nigerian Breweries’ first female Board Chair.
Juliet Anammah is the first female Board Chair of Nigerian Breweries Plc and the CEO of CG&R Strategy LLC, a US-based business consulting firm specialising in growth strategies, …