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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. Just like its neighbours, Ghana is a predominantly agricultural country dependant on the cocoa production.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

I wanted a Ghanaian delicacy that I had grown up on ( I was born in Ghana), and that meant getting up and going to the only African shop in the city. So I have embraced it fully, and though we are still in the early stages (seed stage), it’s the hardest thing I have ever done yet it’s the most fulfilling thing to me.