Volunteer Spotlight: Elli Safari
In today’s Volunteer Spotlight – we feature our Head of Budgeting at Ambitious.Global - Elli Safari.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Bantaba is operational: The platform that allows startups from Africa to access talent and capital officially started its activities.
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.
Rwanda Genocide: A Closer Look at How the Nordics Participated in Bringing Closure to the Land of a Thousand Hills
If you are reading about the Rwandan Genocide for the first time, this conflict was considered the result of a civil war between the Hutus and the Tutsis. It all started when Rwanda’s President, Juvénal Habyarimana, was killed when his plane was shot down. Hutu extremists then gained control of the government and started a genocide that would brutally murder up to 800,000 people between April 7 and July 15, 1994.
Ambitious Education: Alternative Learning Methods and the Future of Education in Africa
Alternative learning methods and the future of education in Africa were on the agenda of the webinar held by Ambitious.Africa’s Education Team on the 25th of February.
Spotify in Africa: Is Kenya the Biggest Beneficiary?
Spotify is physically in Africa and consumers can’t keep calm! On February 23, 2021, the world’s largest streaming service announced that it had launched in 84 more countries across the world including Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Tanzania. That means more platforms and choices for African consumers as they will be competing alongside Apple Music, Boomplay, Audiomack, YouTube Music, Deezer, and Mdundo. Upon the announcement, the first question that came to this writer’s mind is what took them so long and why now?
Ambitious.Africa x Home Street Home x LUTES: Building Entrepreneurial Mindset in Makongeni, Kenya
Ambitious.Africa, Home Street Home, and LUTES have joined forces to build an entrepreneurship bootcamp that encourages entrepreneurial mindset, provides hard skills, and inspires creative problem-solving for the Home Street Home community. We use the train-the-trainer concept for maximizing the impact and making it sustainable. The first edition of the three-day bootcamp with 25 participants will take place in May 2021 in Makongeni, Kenya.
Ambitious Kenya: MiniMasterclass on Investments - What did we learn?
Last month the Ambitious Africa Kenya team hosted a mini masterclass featuring one stellar Kenyan entrepreneur and one far-reaching Finnish investor.