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Volunteer Spotlight: Elli Safari

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Head of Budgeting at Ambitious.Global - Elli Safari.

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Volunteer Spotlight: Prince Fully

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Team Lead at Ambitious.Liberia - Prince Fully, a young, ambitious, driven and talented geologist from Liberia.

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Sustainable Lean Six Sigma Course in Kigali, Rwanda

Two months ago, I travelled to the heart of Africa to teach the first Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Green Belt course at the University of Kigali (Rwanda) as part of our Complex Problem-Solving Project, run in conjunction with Ambitious.Africa and ESTIEM.

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Volunteer Spotlight: Kristian Jakobsson

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Grants Manager - Kristian Jakobsson, a young, self-motivated and hardworking university student from Finland.

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Volunteer Spotlight: Eustacia Morris

In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our former Head of Community and HR - Miss. Eustacia Morris, a young, brilliant and ambitious changemaker from South Africa (originally from Zimbabwe).

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Meet Eden Tadesse, Our Chief Executive Officer from Ethiopia

Born and raised in Ethiopia, Eden is a 25-year-old social entrepreneur, digital innovator and human rights activist. As a proud non-conformist and global citizen, she is passionate about leveraging innovation, diversity and leadership to create sustainable solutions. Her professional experience spans across social innovation, activism, economic development, entrepreneurship and education ventures in Africa, India and the Nordics.

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The Ambitious Africa Online Platform

By Alexander Gröning We are creating a Ambitious.Africa Online Platform where the community can gather in one place to work and collaborate towards our goals. As a community, we can share our experiences, support and guide each other. The online platform provides a unique opportunity to network between countries, areas of interest and partners. By having everything centralized we can work in unison and reach new heights.

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Meet Emma, an Inspiring and Driven Kenyan Agripreneur

Emmaculate is a young, passionate, and innovative entrepreneur in agriculture. She is the CEO and Founder of Emmat AgroFarm Limited, an agribusiness investing in agriculture and innovation with the aim of fighting youth unemployment, hunger, and poverty through various collaborations and partnerships with various stakeholders.

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Lean Six Sigma at the University of Kigali

By Tiia Madekivi & Maija Luukka - In early March, our Ambitious Africa Team organized the first-ever Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Course at the University of Kigali. The course was coordinated by the Ambitious Africa team, together with European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management, ESTIEM, and supported by two French Universities. Let’s hear one of the Trainers, Maija Luukka´s insights about this extraordinary course:

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Research for agro-entrepreneurship open university concept in Zambia

By Tiia Madekivi - Ambitious.Africa is collaborating with PBL-BioAfrica and ESGROW to find opportunities for an open university concept in Zambia that focuses primarily on Agro-entrepreneurship. The project contributes to the HEI-ICI program’s long-term impact by strengthening the capacity of bioeconomy HEIs to provide pedagogically innovative, work-life relevant, and accessible higher education for large student numbers in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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It's a blockbuster funding year for African startups

By Conrad Onyango, bird - Africa is on track for its biggest startup fundraising year ever. With more African startups joining the "unicorn club", that's a trend that looks likely to continue.

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Going green: an innovative financial instrument is helping Africa tackle climate change - and deepening financial markets

By Conrad Onyango, bird - African countries are turning to innovative financial instruments to help tackle climate change. Nine countries, with Kenya and Morocco at the fore, have taken the lead by offering green bonds to capital markets investors.

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Forbidden love, race and politics. How an African love story is getting global attention

By Seth Onyango, bird - Vuta N’kuvute, a film about a rebellious young freedom fighter’s love affair with a young Indian-Zanzibari girl escaping an oppressive arranged marriage is the latest addition to a growing number of African movies appealing to a global audience.

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Ambitious Tanzania and AIESEC University of Dar es Salaam join forces on SASI program

Ambitious Tanzania and AIESEC University of Dar es Salaam organize Start-up and Small Business Internship program (SASI). The official launch is Friday, 24th of September.

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Kenyan-Finnish education partnership sees 51 Kenyan students join the Tampere University of Applied Sciences

By Cate Mukei - An education partnership between the Kenyan county of Uasin Gishu and Finland has seen 51 Kenyan students join the Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK).

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The rise, fall, and renaissance of Zamrock: The story of Zambia’s forgotten 1970s rock scene

By Jasmin Nyqvist - As a new documentary about WITCH - one of Zamrock’s leading bands - is released, we take a trip down memory lane and delve into one of the earliest manifestations of rock music in Africa.

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Bantaba is operational: The platform that allows startups from Africa to access talent and capital officially started its activities.

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SavingOurselves: The podcast that looks into climate change through the lens of Nordic businesses

The ubiquity of climate change nowadays is only matched by its utmost gravity. While this issue concerns every single one of us, industry leaders have more responsibility for engaging in finding solutions for this scourge. It is exactly this group of people that Maija Luukka and Jennifer Ohemeng converse with in their 10 episodes podcast.

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Valid8: Meet the great minds behind the innovative pre-accelerator

Valid8 pre-accelerator comes to break the barriers of turning your ideas into reality. This is the second blog post about the Valid8 pre-accelerator launched by Ambitious.Africa, the Great Zambezi Initiative, and TampereES. In this blog, we will present to you our team and the motivation behind this innovative pre-accelerator that not only connects Zambezi startups but also brings a bridge with the Finnish ecosystem.

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Ambitious Liberia: Monrovia Ecosystem Launch

The Monrovia Ecosystem is now officially launched and accessible to the public. It is found at KeysEcosystem.com/Monrovia. The launching event was held on May 21 2021 in the Auditorium, University of Liberia Capitol Hill Campus, and was merged with the University of Liberia E-learning Workshop which brought together university students, youth leaders, young aspiring entrepreneurs, and stakeholders. Thanks to Ambitious Liberia and Ambitious.Africa for building this online resource platform. The Monrovia Ecosystem is a visual representation of resources to connect entrepreneurs to co-working spaces, accelerators, startups, hubs, financial and higher learning institutions, competitions, etc.