Top 60 Young Entrepreneurs In Nigeria and Ghana – If their stories dont inspire you, nothing can

50. Kofi Okyere Darko , Ghanaian – Nineteen 57 clothing
Ace Ghanaian broadcaster, Kofi Okyere Darko (KOD), owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Nineteen57 fashion brand in Ghana which has exhibited in various fashion shows and has a wide range of top clients including politicians and high profile personalities. He is as well the Head of Marketing at EIB Network’s Live fm, Kofi has been the brain behind most successful Live fm events which always witness thousands of attendees.

51. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Nigerian – Andela
Iyinoluwa, a serial entrepreneur with years of experience running social ventures in education technology and publishing, is a Co-founder and Director of Recruitment at Andela, a technology company with offices in Yaba, Lagos and New York. Andela selects the top one per cent of technology talent from Africa. With funding from organizations which include founders of Facebook, eBay and AOL, Andela, a talent accelerator, trains world-class developers and matches them with employers around the world. In 2014, Iyinoluwa co-founded Fora, which enables African universities to scale quickly, using online course content developed by professors at leading global institutions. Iyinoluwa, last month, was listed by Forbes among the Most Promising Young African Entrepreneurs. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Studies from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He helped found and run Bookneto Inc, a social e-learning platform for university professors to teach online courses. Bookneto Inc. was acquired in 2013.

52. Aisha Augie-Kuta, Nigerian – MeerMaad Networks Ltd
Aisha Augie-Kuta (35yrs) is a photographer, filmmaker and mixed media artist based in Abuja. Her work spans photography, painting and documentary-style films. Aisha currently runs The Photo Cafe and is the founder of The Centre For Art and Creative Talent (CACT) in Abuja.

She is the CEO of Meermaad Networks. She studied Mass Communication at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria; obtained her MSc in Media and communication at the Pan African University, Lagos (Now Pan Atlantic University); holds a Certificate in Digital Filmmaking from The New York Film academy and also a Certificate in curating contemporary art exhibitions from the Chelsea College of art and design, London, UK. Aisha became interested in photography when her father gave her a camera at a young age. She is an Associate of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI); Vice-President, Women in Film and Television in Nigeria (Wiftin) the West African chapter of the US – based network; and co-founded The Photowagon, a Nigerian photography collective, in 2009.