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The second cohort of Ashoka Young Change makers (AYC) Nigeria, unveiled by Ashoka Africa Foundation in Lagos, have solicited for partnership in reducing incidences of the Almajiri syndrome, illiteracy and other societal malaise among young people in the country.
Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The British Council and Ashoka’s Impact Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit, which is set to go virtual in 2021, first time since inception, is set to empower 1,000 African social entrepreneurs this year. Making the announcement yesterday, the organisations noted that this year’s summit, is aimed at accelerating social innovations to Africa’s most pressing challenges by inspiring and connecting social entrepreneurs, change makers, investors, and other ecosystem stakeholders across sub-Saharan Africa. The inaugural Impact Africa Summit was held in June 2018 in J...
The British Council and Ashoka’s Impact Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit is going virtual in 2021, Rebecca Ejifoma reports On January 21, 2021, British Council and Ashoka announced the launch of the virtual edition of Impact Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit. The Summit, is aimed at accelerating social innovations to Africa’s most pressing challenges by inspiring and connecting social entrepreneurs, changemakers, investors, and other ecosystem stakeholders across sub-Saharan Africa. Building on the inaugural Impact Africa Summit of June 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa and the ...
British Council, Ashoka launch virtual entrepreneurship summit today On Moses Anibaba, British Council’s Regional Director (left) and Pape Samb, Ashoka’s Africa Diamond Leader. The British Council and Ashoka will, on Thursday, launch the virtual edition of Impact Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit, which aims to accelerate social innovations in Africa’s most pressing challenges by inspiring and connecting social entrepreneurs, change-makers, investors and other ecosystem stakeholders across sub-Saharan Africa. A statement said the summit, with the theme “Resilience and Sustainabil...
THE STANDARD AFRICA Kenyan Ministry of health medical workers prepare to take swabs from truck drivers during a testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Namanga one-stop border crossing point between Kenya and Tanzania, in Namanga, Kenya May 12, 2020. [File, Thomas Mukoya, Reuters] Projections indicate that the Covid-19 pandemic is sinking Africa into extreme poverty where the majority survive on less than a dollar (Sh111) per day. The grim revelation came from Ashoka, an association of global entrepreneurs, during the launch in Nairobi of an initiative aimed at supporting Afric...