Humphrey Kariuki Ndegwa is one of Kenya’s most storied, yet elusive businessmen. Over the last three decades, Ndegwa, 60, has quietly built his company, the Janus Continental Group, into one of East Africa’s largest conglomerates while staying away from the limelight, reports Forbes. Modest in his personal life, calm in
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Hadijah Nalubega, 30, never imagined she would one day become a landlady given the fact that her job in Uganda wasn’t satisfying. However, after securing a job in Qatar through Middle East Consultants, a labour exporting agency licensed by the government in 2014, Nalubega is closer to becoming a landlady.
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Success in life isn’t all about one’s education levels. There are a number of successful entrepreneurs who didn’t go far with education, but they are employing Professors. This must have been one of the motivating factors for Franco Mambi, 27, a resident of Seeta in Mukono Municipality. Having completed Senior
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Fifteen (15) young African entrepreneurs have emerged as finalists from a field of more than 800 applicants for the seventh annual Anzisha Prize, Africa's premier award for her youngest entrepreneurs. Supported by African Leadership Academy (ALA) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the Anzisha Prize celebrates and cultivates the next
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Livara cosmetics founder and owner, Maxima Nsimenta is among the few young female entrepreneurs nominated for this year's Young Achievers Awards. She was nominated in the Young Achievers Award for Business category. [caption id="attachment_3238" align="alignnone" width="1140"] The organisers of the awards[/caption] Livara Cosmetics manufactures natural and organic cosmetics made from shea
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Empty plastic bottles (waste) remains a challenge in keeping Kampala and other towns across the country clean. However, Christine Ddamba, 23, a first year student at St. Lawrence University (SLAU) is turning this waste into precious furniture; she makes different types of furniture from empty plastic bottles and paper rolls.
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Jack Ma, China’s richest man and founder of Alibaba Group recently made headlines when he visited Kenya and Rwanda with 38 fellow Chinese billionaires, all no doubt poised with expensive fountain pens, ready to ink billion dollar deals. But Ma’s story to success is an incredible one. He is a
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The sixth edition of the coveted Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) culminate on Monday with a bang as the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) awarded three more African innovators for their incredible innovations. The awards ceremony took place in Accra, Ghana. Out of the total of over 2500 applications, 10 nominees
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John Collison, the Irish cofounder of Stripe, the payments processing company now powering many in-app purchase systems, was a few months ago proclaimed the world's youngest self-made billionaire by Forbes in its new world's richest list. Collison, 26, is two months younger than Spiegel, the cofounder of Snapchat, which went
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Ugandan teachers have for years cried foul over the meager and delayed salaries. A year can hardly pass without them going on strike or threatening to strike. Many complain that they cannot meet all their basic needs due to little pay. As a result, the quality of their standards of
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