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Access to funding for Africa’s women entrepreneurs requires a more innovative digital approach — Lionesses of Africa

Lioness Radio / The Business of Funding Podcast Ep.4 For Africa’s women entrepreneurs in both startup and growth mode, getting access to funding can be a tricky and often frustrating experience. That’s why a more innovative approach is required, and fintech has a definite role to play in creating more accessible funding platforms for women […]

Eliana Silva, a Mozambican communications specialist with a passion for storytelling — Lionesses of Africa

Eliana Silva é especialista em comunicação com uma carreira de mais de uma década a trabalhar em jornalismo, relações públicas e publicidade. A sua experiência profissional é focada, nos dias de hoje, em publicidade, activação de marca e comunicação estratégica. A Eliana começou a sua carreira na indústria de media portuguesa, na Revista Máxima em […]

Heleen Henriques, a design focused furniture sales business builder — Lionesses of Africa

Lioness Weekender spoke to Heleen this month to learn more about her unique business, her background in architecture, and her aspirations for MOBI going forward. What does your company do? MOBI provides home and office furniture solutions to the Mozambican market. Besides for carrying stock for immediate delivery, we also supply furniture for projects on […]

Lioness Launch / #WINEOFCOLORSA in South Africa launches its exciting new membership program for emerging wine brands of colour — Lionesses of Africa

#WINEOFCOLORSA, founded by Janine Petersen of J9 Wines and Mbali Masike-Malebye of ngiyiMbali Wines in South Africa, is launching its exciting new membership program for emerging wine brands of colour. #WINEOFCOLORSA is a platform that promotes and empowers young emerging wine makers and entrepreneurs in the wine industry through collaboration, education and acceleration by building […]

Do You Know How To Wait?

by Elizandra dos Santos Do You Know How To Wait? It is the challenge that I bring to the present moment. It’s worse for the quick fixers who want instant results, quick effects, quick responses, goals achieved in the shortest time and miraculous resolutions. I wish life were like this. Many people, because they don’t […]

Can We Continue?

by Manini Mbongwa I find myself surprised that we are almost ending the first quarter of the year 2022 so suddenly.  For many entrepreneurs there has been a confusion of whether they should try to revive their businesses or just give up.  After going through the tough period of closing their doors due to the […]

Just Wait!  — Lionesses of Africa

by Nontobeko Mbuyane I read in some book sometime ago that waiting is not mere empty hoping, but It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal. And with time I surely agree with that as well. Coming from me that is really something big because I have been an impatient person for much of […]

How to Set a Goal?

by Deyzes Pereira, founder of Startups Consulting in Mozambique Many entrepreneurs are aware that one of the most important things required to start a business is the definition of goals. But what often happens is that many of them do not understand very well the importance of goals and how to define them correctly. Today […]