The West African eFounders fellows invites you to a night of sharing. Hear from the fellows* of the Alibaba eFounders programme and guests from across Africa on their lessons on how digital technology is transforming China and how we can adopt these as a country.
Speakers:
OBIANUJU UZO-OJINNAKA (Uju)
CEO TRADERS OF AFRICA - TOFA
Trader of Africa - TOFA is a pan African online marketplace for products grown, produced or manufactured in Africa only.
To further facilitate African Trade, it creates a pan African digital platform for Trade and Investment; African Trade Invest - ATI (Africantradeinvest.com), with a dual pronged business model.
Emmanuel Leslie Addae
Co Founder/CEO Talents in Africa
Talents in Africa seeks to empower African youth through proprietary tests on an AI backed recruitment platform that allows Africans to identify their skills to expose and match them to training and jobs and for employers to find quality candidates in Africa. Its proprietary tests allow candidates to identify their skills then suggests opportunities to them, like Facebook suggests friends. It also recommends skill accelerators that help candidates to upskill in areas of interest or where they are deficient.
Saviour Kwaku Dzage
CEO Asoriba
Asoriba targets about 2.6 million urban churches in Africa with growth aspiration, serving over half a billion Christians in a $25 billion market. It focuses on providing integrated software solutions to African churches, with key emphasis on enabling effective administration for church leaders, driving engagement among congregants via relevant content and providing a digital alternative to donations, contribution and offerings.
Its end-to- end solutions comprise of a leadership web CRM, a member-focused mobile app for social engagement and a USSD solution for the informal and offline usage.
It also deploys a proprietary payments and collections platform for churches and other businesses, whilst providing financial services such as insurance to church goers in alternative markets.
SEYRAM KOFI SEYRAM
CEO KIKUU EXPRESS LIMITED
KiKUU Express Limited is a courier company supporting the logistics part of KiKUU Platform Ghana Limited.
Kikuu Platform Ghana Limited is an online shop which is in the e-commerce business. Buyers in Ghana place order (prepay) for the item and wait patiently till it comes. The local supplier items are processed into delivery within six days. Packages that arrive from China are processed within and delivered within 15 working days. Kikuu Express develops a nation wide delivery network by empowering more than 150 agents across the country.
Christopher Nyakpo
CEO Frikmat
Frikmat is a B2B trading platform that empowers African SMEs to reach more customers locally and globally. This in effect promotes intra African Trade and increases Africa's contribution to global trade which is currently only about 3%.
Henry cobblah
Lead developer for Ahwenepa LLC
Computer Engineer by profession and Having had his MPhil in Health Informatics Henry seeks to provide innovative solutions with his company iSolveAfrica from which solutions like Ahwenepa(African Inspired Marketplace) and Moor(Sexual and reproductive health digital services) are developed.