Women

Kenya’s Pine Kazi, which converts pineapple leaf and recycled rubber into fashionable footwear has won the $2,000 Fashionomics Africa competition…

Ananse Africa, a Ghanian startup ecommerce platform, has today launched to connect African designers with local and international consumers and…

GroupM SSA has expanded its Groupm Academy GradX program established in South Africa in 2020 to Kenya and Nigeria with…

Momentum Metropolitan recently announced it had empowered five women-led businesses with a share of R1-million and some invaluable coaching in…

In a COVID-19 driven world, more women are embracing entrepreneurship across the world. In the case of Africa, she has…

Nigerian Fintech startup, Team Apt has started an internship program to support women in Technology. Team Apt is a financial…

Nairobi-based Pula Advisors and M-KOPA have received $1m and $300,000 respectively in grants from the African Development Bank for research…

Bolt recently received $24 million from the IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, to promote access to on-demand…

Huawei has officially launched its HUAWEI Women Developers (HWD) program to empower women developers to create applications and tools that…

Crowdyvest, a Nigerian crowdfunding platform has raised additional funding and is pivoting to a digital wealth management and savings platform.…

Citibank N.A Kenya has established a Supply Chain Finance Programme in support of women-owned businesses. The bank’s Chief Executive Officer,…

One year on from the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa’s (COMESA) deepest…

Powered by People (PBP), a Kenyan fintech and eCommerce startup targeting creative manufacturing producers and buyers has raised $1.5 million…

Enygma Ventures is widening its net to reach passionate women entrepreneurs in the entire SADC region. The women-led VC firm…

Kikao64, a new co-working space and ‘inspirational hub’ by the  Van Woustraat Trust, an initiative of Hannie Kiprono Biwott, (Late…

Wambui Kinya has joined Mozilla Foundation’s Board of Directors from Andela where she was the VP Partner Engineering where she…

Anzisha Prize has launched the 2021 call for Africa’s biggest award for young entrepreneurs between, 15 and 22 with a…

He claimed that women are incompetent and therefore could not handle “hard” tasks. I begged to differ and argued that women in general are not supported, some don’t even make it to higher level

Ericsson has announced the appointment of Sena Erten as Vice President and Head of People at Ericsson Middle East and…

Jobberman, Nigeria’s largest job placement platform in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the appointment of Rolake Rosiji as the new CEO.…

The Coca-Cola Africa Operating Unit has appointed Debra Mallowah as the new Vice President for the East and Central Africa Franchise, effective…

Humanity must agree on the benefits of technology – and then use it to uplift each other and achieve our…

Pula, a Nairobi-based insuretech startup has closed a $6mn Series A fundraise led by TLcom Capital, with the participation of…

OZÉ, a Ghana-based fintech startup digitizing African SMEs and providing them with access to affordable capital, has closed a $700k…

L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science South African National Young Talents Programme, which supports young female scientists has awarded six post-doctoral…

The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), committed to empowering young African entrepreneurs, and the European Union have partnered to identify, train,…

Kenya’s Flare, Egypt’s CUP MENA, Jordan’s Carers App & SA’s 3DIMO have been announced winners of $250,000 Sheraa UCAN Startup…

MTN Group has appointed Telekom’s Group CFO Tsholofelo Molefe as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (GCFO) starting next month.…