Ambitious.Africa and Nordic Startup School Host Workshop to Boost African Startups
Nordic Startup School hosted a workshop together with Framlabs and Ambitious Africa on September 16th for startups with the aim of accelerating the tech ecosystem in Africa and build profitable businesses.
Interview: Springboard CEO Kingsley J Ify on Sustainable African-Nordic Business Partnerships
The annual Springboard conference was founded to enable smoother investment and stronger partnerships between entrepreneurs and key business players in Africas and the Nordics. Ambitious.Africa Media caught up with co-founder and CEO Kingsley J Ify to talk about this year’s virtual event.
Ambitious.Africa Meets with Finnish Foreign Trade Minister Ville Skinnari 10.8
The Ambitious.Africa team met with Finnish Minister of Development and Foreign Trade Ville Skinnari on Monday, August 10th to discuss ways of strengthening Finland’s business presence in Africa and the importance of young people working together.
Tanzanian Women Handcrafting Their Way to Financial Independence Through Finnish Fairtrade
SideBySide is a fairtrade interior design company started in 2016, which Ambitious Africa is partnering with. The business has so far employed five hundred women in Tanzania, in rural communities as well as in a women’s shelter. The women make interior items such as handweaved baskets, which are sold to Finnish resellers. They can use their earnings to move beyond household duties and imagine new possibilities for themselves and their families.
