How Ifeanyi Umejei tackles the electricity problem in Nigeria with ICE Commercial Power
In this episode, meet Ifeanyi Umejei, co-founder of ICE Commercial Power in Lagos, Nigeria. He and his co-founders are on a mission to solve the power problem in Nigeria through solar micro grids. By...
24 Jul 202035min
How Sename Agbodjinou produces Smart Citizens with Digital Fabrication Lab Network WoeLabs in Togo
★★★ Meet Sename Koffi Agbodjinou founder of Woelab in Lomé, Togo and Ashoka Fellow. Before you jump into the full interview, let us just say, that Sename is working on one of the biggest visions we ha...
18 Jul 202033min
How Mamoudou Touré turned Typha from a Problem into a Solution with HABIDEM in Mauritania
Meet Mamoudou Touré, agricultural engineer by training, who with his friend and business partner, turns the plant Typha into a material for construction with their business HABIDEM in Mauritania. In ...
10 Jul 202020min
How Mahmud Johnson built a Social Business around Eco-Friendly Palm Kernel Oil with J-Palm Liberia
In this interview meet Mahmud Johnson, founder of J-Palm Liberia, a social business, contributing to employment opportunities for young people in Liberia as well as higher incomes for farmers, by incr...
30 Jun 202056min
How Nkem Okocha uplifts low income women in Nigeria with FinTech Social Enterprise Mamamoni
★★★ Meet Nkem Okocha, the founder of FinTech Social Enterprise Mamamoni, whom we interviewed in September 2019 in Lagos. Mamamoni is dedicated to eradicating poverty and uplift low income women from ...
20 Jun 202053min
How Pedro Da Fonseca started the LED manufacturing business Black Gold Engineering from his Garage
In this episode, meet Pedro Da Fonseca, the founder of Black Gold Engineering, a Namibian LED light manufacturer and distributor, that has a patented LED solution for streetlights that provides up to...
9 Jun 20201h 4min
BANTUMAKERS: Launching impact businesses through a startup studio in Luanda, Angola, with Vanda de Oliveira & Ricardo Figueiredo
In this interview, meet Vanda de Oliveira and Ricardo Figueiredo, the two founders of Bantumakers, a startup studio in Angola. In our interview we chatted about how they launch businesses, how they f...
1 Jun 202043min
How Sobel Ngom's Social Change Factory reached millions of Youth with an inspiring TV show & why he got quoted by Obama
Meet Sobel Ngom, founder and director of the Social Change Factory. Sobel’s changemaker journey started, when during an internship in rural Senegal, he experienced first hand, the injustices in the ed...
23 Mai 202057min
