EXPERT INSIGHT: The Maboneng Township Arts Experience has flipped the extractive tourism approach to retain visitors’ spending in their host communities. It’s a generation’s work, explains Siphiwe Ngwenya.
Two social entrepreneurs united to launch a support hub for new parents in a village in Senegal. Now, as Good Start Challenge winners, the founders are now looking to take what they've learned further afield.
Following the devastating loss of her cousin’s premature baby in rural Uganda, Dr Comfort Ayikoru created a solution to the country’s desperate lack of incubators.
EXPERT INSIGHT: In trying to support smallholder farmers, we’ve too often overlooked the agribusinesses that serve them. Research from 60 Decibels shows that catalytic capital for these enterprises can transform farming communities.
The CEO of the African Venture Philanthropy Alliance speaks to Tim West about solving your own problems, how Africans turn “embarrassing” issues into entrepreneurial opportunities and how he came to realise his love and pride for Africa.
This week: discover the ‘first professor for the impact economy’, survey reveals young changemakers risk online backlash and financial struggles, global universities ranked according to positive impact – and much more.
MY IMPACT CAREER: Amma Lartey, a long-time entrepreneur, has been a major force in growing the impact economy in West Africa, co-founding Social Enterprise Ghana and becoming the first CEO of Impact Investing Ghana.
