Promoting Africa
Today, we introduce you to Alioune Traore, also known as Master Allan, a young Burkinabes located in the Ottawa / Gatineau region. He is the founder of "La Suiterie", a brand that offers tailor-made clothing. Who is Master Allan? I am a young entrepreneur who also practices in the field of clothing, and who has…
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Douglas Mbiandou, a 41-year-old Cameroonian entrepreneur, wants to train 10,000 coders in Africa. Since 2005, its learning center, OBJIS, has already contributed to the continuous training of more than 3,000 people in France. Forming "10,000 coders" in Africa, is one of Douglas Mbiandou's biggest projects, whose objective is to make the African continent the first…
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Senegal, like several African countries, faces a real problem of waste treatment. Old used tires are often burned to extract the iron they contain. To counter this situation, Yaye Souadou Fall, then a business school student at ISM (Dakar) decides with six of her classmates to take up the challenge of recycling the thousands of…
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Presenting Lakheni, a South African initiative that uses group buying power to lower food prices for needy communities, using a mobile app. We all know that buying in bulk can lead to great savings. However, lower-income earners (who often live a long way from grocery stores), do not have the means to purchase items in large quantities. On…
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OMG Digital, the Ghana-based media startup known as the “BuzzFeed of Africa,” announced that it has raised $1.1 million in seed funding from investors. Its main site, OMG Voice, already has versions for Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya, and the new capital will be used to expand into more countries, produce more video content, and grow its…
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Newly launched Tanzanian startup Worknasi, is an online platform connecting businesses and startups in the country to awesome office space, co-working spaces and meeting rooms in today’s sharing economy Founded by Edgar B.Mwampinge, a Tanzanian law graduate and founder of Spid Express a company which offers expresse delivery services based on door to door pick-up, delivery and…
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On June 15, 2017, MTN-Bénin (one of Benin's mobile networks) made available to its subscribers, the MoMoPay, a new payment system, which accelerates the process of monetary transactions. MTN MoMoPay is a new payment solution that allows users to quickly pay for their purchases using their mobile phones. It is a convenient, secure and easy way…
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