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Zainab Ashadu, a Nigerian entrepreneur building a renowned handbag brand — Lionesses of Africa

Lioness Weekender spoke to the creative Zainab Ashadu this week to learn more about her entrepreneurial journey, her vision for her brand, and her aspirations for the future. What does your company do? We design and manufacture design-led, sustainable and upcycled leather handbags. What inspired you to start your company? A burning love for handbags […]

Maureen Obaweya, a Nigerian entrepreneur building a luxury leather accessory brand — Lionesses of Africa

What inspired you to start your company? Seeking a platform to express my personal creativity after promoting other Nigerian and African artists and craftspeople in a prior creative company. I was privileged to have been on a sponsored training programme for women entrepreneurs in handcrafts sponsored by Vital Voices and the Exxon Mobil Foundation in […]

Rachelle Best, a South African entrepreneur creating an app to help parents manage their children’s online safety — Lionesses of Africa

What inspired you to start your company? To start with, I’m the mom of a teenage daughter. She’s 15 years old, which means that I understand the challenges of parenting in the digital world too well. She is mainly the reason we started developing FYI play it safe. When I started thinking about giving her a mobile […]

Redefine Genius! — Lionesses of Africa

by Lionesses of Africa Operations Department We were recently watching a TED Talk (here) by the brilliant leader and Lioness, Temie Giwa-Tubosun of LifeBank where she wrote as an introduction “…while genius is evenly distributed, investment isn’t.” This fundamental truth (both the genius bit and sadly, the investment side as well) got us thinking. What […]

Loretta Visagie – African Farming

Winter is upon us with colder, drier weather in the summer rainfall regions and the winter rains starting in the Western Cape. War in the Ukraine has had some serious consequences for farmers with frightening price increases in animal feed, fuel and fertiliser. But farmers are survivors, capable of making and implementing the type of […]

Happy Mpshe – African Farming

Winter is upon us with colder, drier weather in the summer rainfall regions and the winter rains starting in the Western Cape. War in the Ukraine has had some serious consequences for farmers with frightening price increases in animal feed, fuel and fertiliser. But farmers are survivors, capable of making and implementing the type of […]

Animal health: Knowlegde is power

The problem with keeping animals healthy and disease-free in rural areas is not so much about lack of accountability but rather a lack of knowledge and access to basic animal healthcare and common stock remedies. Animal health company Afrivet is committed to helping farmers overcome these challenges. “If a farmer with 10 animals loses a […]

Importance of accountability in farming – African Farming

African Farming host Tony Ndoro discusses how accountability factors into each element of a farming operation with Praveen Dwarika, MD of AFGRI’s Lemang Agricultural Services, Ratselane Marumo, Afrivet Business Management, Sales and Marketing Manager for export, Johann Vosser, MD of Vleissentraal Bosveld and Hendrik Mokoto, Pannar Seed Sales Representative. Source link