Meet the CEO of Flutterwave, the Nigerian start-up that became a $1 billion firm in five years
Olugbenga Agboola is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco and Lagos-based Flutterwave, a fintech company that has become a $1 billion startup in five years. Before becoming the CEO in…
Maria Lourdes Mutol, a legendary athlete from Mozambique
Maria de Lurdes Mutola, born in 1972 in Maputo, is a Mozambican athlete specializing in mid-distance races, including 800 meters. Also called the “Maputo Express”, Mutola is the only Mozambican…
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwean multiple award-winning novelist
Tsitsi Dangarembga was born on 4 February 1959 in the small town of Mutoko, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where her parents taught at the nearby mission school. Her mother was…
Amadou Hampate Ba, Malian influential scholar in the 20th Century
Amadou Hampâté Bâ (c. 1900-1991) was a well-known Malian diplomat and author of the last half of the twentieth century. His fiction and non-fiction books in French are widely respected…
Hauwa Ibrahim, an International Human Rights and Sharia Law Lawyer.
Hauwa Ibrahim is an International Human Rights and Sharia Law Lawyer. A senior partner at Aries Law Firm, working as a lead attorney with a team devoted to the cause…
Naomi Mata’afa first female prime minister of the Independent State of Samoa
Prime Minister Mata’afa is a hardworking and seasoned politician, and now is the first female Prime Minister of Samoa. She served her country since 1985. She was first elected to…
Dr Kike Moronkeji creator of Gidi Box Office streaming platform
Dr Kike Moronkeji is an Entrepreneur, and an Engineer who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Gidi Box Office, a new streaming and distribution platform that offers convenient…
Sihle Magubane, owner of South Africa’s only Black-owned coffee brand
Sihle Magubane is the founder of South Africa’s first Black-owned coffee brand. The entrepreneur founded Sihle’s Brew in 2012 after years of being a barista, working for some of the…
Babawande Afolabi, founder of Green Africa Airways
Babawande Afolabi returned from the United States to Nigeria to start an airline company. He is the founder of Lagos-based value airline, Green Africa Airways. The airline was scheduled to…
Lillian Barnard, Managing Director, Microsoft South Africa
Lillian Barnard was appointed as the Managing Director of Microsoft South Africa in March 2019. She joined Microsoft in May 2017 as Public Sector Director for South Africa, a role…
Wangari Maathai, the woman of trees
Kenya’s Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71. A mother of three, she devoted her life to…
Ghanaian students develop gas leakage detector that operates via SMS alert
Three students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana have developed a gas leakage detector that operates via SMS alert. The technology aims at facilitating early detection…
Joshua Beckford, living with autism, is the youngest ever to attend Oxford University
At age six, most young children are entering first grade, but not for the extraordinary Joshua Beckford. Living with high-functioning autism, the child prodigy from Tottenham was, at the age…
Bethelhem Dejene Abebe, an entrepreneur who wants to disrupt the paper industry
During the first year of her studies at Addis Ababa University, Bethelhem Dejene Abebe visited the Atkilt Tera market, the biggest fruit and vegetable market in Ethiopia, with her mother….
Uzoma Dozie, founder of Sparkle
Uzoma Dozie is the founder of Sparkle, a Nigerian-based online platform that uses technology to build a community of retailers in Nigeria. In other words, he is using technology to build…
Ofo Ezeugwu is an entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO of WhoseYourLandlord
Many desire to rent a place where they can have a good landlord. While the idea seems impossible, a Black founder has created a solution that allows renters to have…
Cornelia Kruah-Togba from Liberia
Cornelia Kruah-Togba is a Liberian public servant and advocate for youth and women’s empowerment. She started her career in 2011 as the Youth Program Officer of the Angie Brooks International…
Babatunde Olatunji, the father of African drumming
I am the drum, you are the drum, and we are the drum. Because the whole world revolves in rhythm, and rhythm is the soul of life, for everything that…
Francis Akuamoah Boateng, founder of Ghana’s first solar panel
For Francis Akuamoah Boateng, there could be no better time in history than now to establish Ghana’s first solar panel factory. In international circles and the energy industry, there has…
Sherien Elagroudy, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
Ali Abdalla Elagroudy, Sherien is an Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering as well as the director and founder of Egypt Solid Waste Management Center of Excellence at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She was born and raised in Egypt. Education Sherien holds Bachelor’s…