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100 Lionesses Digital Transformation Playbook for Africa’s Women Entrepreneurs offers first-person hacks, tactics and strategies for building businesses back from Covid-19 pandemic — Lionesses of Africa

“Digital transformation can be a game changer for women enterprises. It may even help accelerate access to finance, markets, knowledge and innovation for a segment that until now has been largely unserved. It may also lift unconscious biases which added to the access barriers women entrepreneurs faced pre-COVID. However, it will be important to increase […]

Watch the full episodes of African Farming season 2 here! – African Farming

African Farming Season 2 Episode 1: Pinky Hlabedi (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season 2 Episode 2: Mbali Nwoko (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season 2 Episode 3: Dineo Mokgoshi (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season 2 Episode 4: Abel Naphtaly (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season 2 Episode 5: Mandla and Johnson Mandlendoda (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season […]

Growth and sustainability for women entrepreneurs — Lionesses of Africa

Impact Partner Content / by Dr Langelihle Simela, Agribusiness Development Manager, Absa Women entrepreneurs are business people like their male counterparts. As such, any factors that affect business growth and sustainability, affect their businesses too. These factors include understanding the opportunities and challenges in the sector in which they operate, how the prevailing socio-economic environment […]

Lioness Launch / South Africa’s Job Crystal launches new AI recruitment tool to support SMEs and job seekers — Lionesses of Africa

Kelly and Sasha, the owners of Job Crystal in South Africa, found that in their experience with starting businesses, the process of finding staff took far too long, and that this was often the breaking point for many businesses. After further research they found that for smaller companies, agencies were often too expensive and didn’t […]

Amena ElSaie, a disability champion of change in Egypt  — Lionesses of Africa

Amena is an adventurous executive with an artist’s heart; she was awarded as a woman champion of change in Egypt 2020 by the joint partnership between Canada and Sweden embassies and was certified by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in “Improvement of Accessibility of Social Inclusion – Barrier Free Environment” in Japan, 2016. She […]

Lutea Magaia, a Mozambican entrepreneur contributing to environmental education and the green ecosystem  — Lionesses of Africa

What inspired you to start your company? After a few years of working with environmental education, I felt I had knowledge that was only being shared within a restricted corporate environment and the reality outside the company was very different. People had no information about why it is important to take care of the environment […]