“I thought my life would be corporate, you know, climbing that corporate ladder, I wanted to shatter the glass ceilings,” Thembi Magajana told FORBES AFRICA. It all started on her niece’s birthday. “I asked her what she wanted and she said she wanted to be Steve Jobs,” Magajana explains. “And I said, ‘okay, why do …
According to SME South Africa, South African tech startups continued to innovate and launch solutions in response to myriad challenges, including Covid-19. Award- winning documentary She Started It, screened by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Martin Trust Center, cites that being a female entrepreneur in the technology industry is bleaker than most. More facts: …
Microsoft Kenya on Friday 19 August announced the appointment of Phyllis Migwi as Country Manager, replacing Kendi Ntwiga who joined Meta (Facebook’s parent company) a few months ago as Global Head of Misrepresentation. A technology leader with over twenty years’ experience in the ICT, consumer products and consulting sectors, Phyllis Migwi works in developing new …
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Integrated Diagnostics Holdings (IDH), a renowned healthcare services provider led by Egyptian multimillionaire businesswoman Hend El-Sherbini, is planning to invest $19.7 million in a new diagnostic venture in Saudi Arabia. The move comes after the Egyptian healthcare services provider signed a joint venture agreement with its Jordanian subsidiary, Al Makhbaryoun Al Arab (Biolab), and Izhoor …
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Growing up in her native Kenya, Juliana Rotich was the lonely, young “geek” with oversized glasses at school. Today she is a highly successful tech entrepreneur who is a co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a homegrown non-profit tech company that has taken the world by storm. The web-based reporting system is used as a …
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Charles Obi Nnanna is founder / chief executive officer of KALTANI, a recycling and waste management company. In this interview with MARY NNAH, he shared his passion for the business of recycling, promoting its importance and sustainable development, the circular economy, and tackling unemployment in Nigeria When did you first become interested in recycling and …
Teju is a seasoned global Business leader with over 20 years of technology leadership delivered to Fortune 100 technology companies across North America, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. A personable, consensus-building leader with extensive relationships and trust established across organisations with a strong bias for action, she has extensive expertise in technology and innovation, strategic planning, …
Karen-Happuch is a Ghanaian Animation Director, digital illustrator, UI/UX Designer, and founder of KHPH studios and KHPH customs. She is also skilled in 2D animation, 3D environment design, and Editing. She was part of the animators selected to represent Ghana at the just-ended Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France. She attended Wesley Girls’ High …
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Having the largest population in Africa, Nigeria logically accounts for the larger portion of Africa’s internet community. At the centre of everything internet in Africa is Google, the company to which a lot of internet products and services are connected directly or indirectly. And at the helm of Google Nigeria is Juliet Ehimuan-Chiazor as Country …
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In Africa, many parents often hope their children will grow up to be doctors, engineers, lawyers or bankers. Only a few parents support their children’s entrepreneurial skills or their desire to work in the creatives. Sulley Amin Abubakar, now the owner of the “biggest charcoal producing company in Ghana and probably West Africa,” started off …
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