Recap: Tweetchat with One Young World Ambassadors — Funmi Awosanya and Sandra Ajaja. — Hey guys. Welcome to today’s tweetchat with Sandra Ajaja and Funmi Awosanya, One Young World Ambassadors from West and Central Africa Cactus. They will be sharing insights on how to put forward a winning One Young World Summit Scholarship. Stay Tuned. Q1: Can you please tell us more about the OYW and how applicants can take their place at the summit, the story behind the summit and who the summit is for ?

The Intersection between Access, Education, and Technology. — Many social interventions designed, currently and in the past, to serve certain focus groups, have sadly ended up not serving its purpose, simply because of the lack of ACCESS. ACCESS is the means or opportunity to approach or enter a place. It is one thing to create a place, space…

After reading Michelle Obama’s Becoming, I began the year wanting to find my voice and own it. I needed to learn how to take up more space in the world. Now, what does that even mean? Taking up space means finding the strength to believe in the validity, power, potency of your voice. Oftentimes, we shrink…

Yesterday, I was outraged, after reading that a company laid off 135 employees as part of their post-COVID-19 sustainability strategy. What the heck! It left me wondering where our humanity has gone. It’s like the world didn’t learn anything from this pandemic. A phenomenon that doesn’t care about race, color…

Can innovation solve economic inequality? — How can young entrepreneurs ensure a more sustainable and inclusive path to economic growth that benefits the poor as well as the wealth creators themselves? Poverty is a multidimensional problem. To be able to create solutions that are simple and scalable, we need to understand the root causes of the…

The Role of Youth in Building a Culture of Non Violence. Culture is one of the things that we as humanity collectively get to transfer to the next generation of humanity. The current culture is the one we have met and currently live in. A culture of Anarchy, Injustice and Complacency. A culture where one group has advantages over the other…

Africa FemBosses are Rising! FemPower teaches young African women how to build tech-enabled businesses, drive change in their community through innovation. The FemPower Africa community enables Female Techpreneurs to build a solid business foundation, utilize our partners’ technology, and build a profitable network. …

Problems encountered by African Female Entrepreneurs. — About half of the people of Sub-Saharan Africa live below the poverty line & 80% of them are women. Their access to justice is guaranteed by laws that mean little or nothing without government support & adequate funding… Source: REPORT from the Nordic Africa Institute Female-run enterprises are steadily growing…

and then the world…. — Everyone as an hobby. …that thing you can do all day long even if noone pays you a dime. If so then, everyone is a potential CHANGEMAKER. A social entrepreneur is one that sees a need in the world and creates a solution for it. We all see the myriads of problems in our…