Since 2011, the Anzisha Prize has selected Fellows from across the continent who are doing amazing things in every sector. In these online profiles, you can see what they were up to when we found them, and read articles that track how they and their businesses or social ventures have evolved. This network of entrepreneurs is a key driver of future economic growth and shining example of the power of youth in Africa.
Andrew Ddembe
Heart for the Hurt
Uganda, 2016
Andrew Ddembe is the Founder for Heart for the hunt. He is a serial entrepreneur who manages a seasonality of businesses in Textile making, Restaurants, and Coffee production.
Asha Abbas
Aurateen
Tanzania, 2016
Aurateen provides counseling services both online and in person, and works with medical practitioners and youth experts to educate about STDs.
Benedict Kusi Ampofo
Project Kiriku
Ghana, 2016
Project KIRIKU, a demonstration farm, is designed to create sustainable agricultural communities to minimize poverty by providing requisite skills, knowledge, and innovative technology, helping participating farmers and youth improve their agricultural yield through practice based learning.
Faustino Quissico
TQ Group Services
Mozambique, 2016
22 year old Faustino is founder of TQ Group Services, a construction company which makes hard wood floors using raw local materials sourced from Mozambique. The company currently employs 13 people.
Geoffrey Mulei
INKISHA
Kenya, 2016
20 year old Geoffrey Mulei is founder of INKISHA: a startup designed to increase access to eco-friendly packaging among African consumers by partnering with advertisers and innovative brands.
Heritiaina Randriamananatahina
Fiombonana
Madagascar, 2016
Founded FIOMBONANA, an agro-processing enterprise that manufactures dairy products and confectioneries using only Madagascan raw materials, employing farmers and providing local job opportunities.
Ifrah Arab
Supermom
Kenya, 2016
Founder and C.E.O of Supermom, a venture that aims to close market gap for last-mile distribution to low-income individuals by empowering and enabling women in communities to create a door-to-door distribution network in order to improve livelihoods.
Issam Darui
Lagare.ma
Morocco, 2016
Lagare.ma is the first electronic bus station in Morocco, available in 10 languages and 25 currencies, established to provide services to travel cleverly for the first time in Morocco, providing schedules to over 150 destinations including tourist destinations.
N’guessan Koffi Jacques Olivier
Yaletite Entrepreneurship Group CI
YCote d'Ivoire, 2016
Founder of The Yaletite Entrepreneurship Group CI, an agricultural group with the aim of producing and selling food crops for profit, locating subsidies for students with disabilities, and mobilizing youth for agricultural employment.
Lamine Chamsiya
E3D Cosmetique
Niger, 2016
Lamine is co-founder of E3D Cosmetique, a manufacturing company of a range of skincare and haircare products such as the Bio Neem products which protect against mosquitoes and parasites, and helps one to maintain healthy skin.
Yaye Souadou Fall
E-cover
Senegal, 2016
President of E-cover, a venture that repurposes waste by recycling tires to produce more useful items like shoe soles, roads and even coverings for swimming pools; serving the society and environment.
Daniel Mukisa
Transporter Corporation
Uganda, 2015
Meet Daniel Mukisa, co-founder of Transporter Corporation, a provider of delivery services in Kampala using own branded fleet of 30 motorbikes, carrying out around 150 deliveries daily for corporate clients.
