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Founders, experts, speakers and members — the women building Africa's next generation of businesses.
Aba Amoa
Lead Consultant and CEO of BDZ Properties Ltd
In Ghana’s real estate sector, very few practitioners hold the dual credentials of Chartered Valuation Surveyor and postgraduate specialist in Facilities Management. Aba Amoa...
Abena Amoah
Managing Director of Ghana Stock Exchange
Her career was assembled with the deliberateness of someone who understood early that credibility in this industry requires both breadth and depth. After graduating from the Univer...
Acamea Deadwiler
Author / Owner of Acamea
Founder of Acamea
Adelaide Awo Darkoa Asiedu
Speaker of AELEX Legal Practitioners & Arbitrators
When Adelaide Awo Darkoa Asiedu chose to specialise in dispute resolution, she was making a deliberate decision to enter the space that most young lawyers prefer to avoid: the terr...
Afua Acquah
Vendor of Adoyenaturals
Walk through almost any mainstream beauty retailer and you will find hundreds of products labelled “for all skin types.” Run the ingredient lists against the specific n...
Afya Afrim
Speaker of Bloom Elite Luxury Real Estate
Aisha Addo
Founder of Power To Girls Foundation
The mentorship industry has a structural problem: most of it is designed to serve people who already have access. The girl with the right school, the right neighbourhood, the right...
Akilah Allen
Owner, COO of Virtual Girl Friday
Founder of Virtual Girl Friday
Akosua Kwatema Attakorah
Vendor of Azalia Skin Co
When Akosua Kwatema Attakorah founded Azalia Skin Co, she was making a specific argument with a commercial product: that the beauty industry’s claims of inclusivity were chro...
Allisha Minor-Gaines
LMFT / Relationship Coach of Love, in the clinical world
Founder of Allisha’s Distractions LLC
Ama Amoako
Founder of SimplyAma Coaching Services
She was six years old when her neighbour’s body was removed from his home in a black bag — a life ended by addiction and untreated mental health crisis. The image stayed wi...
Amie
Artist Management of 357Music
“A great artist with a bad deal is still a great artist — just a broke one.” Amie Adeleke has encountered enough variations of this truth during her career in artist ...
Annabella Aso Darryl-Mensah
Founded / Principal Interior Designer of ABM Art Integrate
Her approach is shaped by an unusual transparency about how she works. An introvert by disposition, she has structured ABM Art Integrate’s entire philosophy around leverage: ...
Apiorkor
Poet, Writer, Media Practitioner/ Head of Programmes Production of by people who refuse
Accra is a city that takes its storytelling seriously. The debates on its radio stations, the poetry shared in its literary spaces, the conversations that unfold across its markets...
Arlene M. Holman
Founder | CEO | Creative Director of Sunbeam Communications Ltd
Founder of Sunbeam Communications Ltd
Audrey
Managing Director of TEKURA
You learn more from building an export-capable creative business than from any module on international trade. The logistics, the quality controls, the financial disciplines require...
Awurekua Brew-Sam
Founder of Anything GirlyWorld Ghana
Founder of Anything girlyworld
Beulah Elorm Oppong
CEO of Trinity’s Kente
Founder of Trinity’s Kente
Bukky Asehinde
Founder of Bellafricana
Founder of Bellafricana
Catherine Morton
Speaker of Millennium Marathon
Every January, the streets of Accra transform. Starting lines stretch across neighbourhoods, runners from a dozen countries warm up alongside everyday Ghanaians, and for a few char...
Cherel Gyamfi
Founder of Cherelsdesign
The design industry has a trust problem. Clients sign contracts with studios that take a brief and return something technically competent but entirely generic — capable of impres...
Cida
Speaker of Pilates Studio Accra
Most businesses launched during the 2020 pandemic did not survive their first year. Cida launched one while simultaneously moving continents — and built it into Accra’s mos...
Clarissa Akakpo
Founder of Aguma Tea
The tea ceremony is an argument made without words. In Taiwan, where rituals around tea can last several hours and require years to perform with any real fluency, the argument is t...
Dagny Zenovia
Founder of Bandele Muse
“Follow me home.” In Yoruba, that is what Bandele means — and for Dagny Zenovia, the word carries both genealogy and programme. Her grandmother’s name. Her bran...
Dansoaa Adote
Speaker of Seso Global
The handcraft and artisan sector employs hundreds of millions of people across the developing world, yet for most of those workers the value their skills create ends up almost enti...
Donnaray Roc
Founder of ROC Factory
Imagine landing in a country your grandparents left generations ago. The landscape is recognisable in photographs you have carried your whole life, but the lived experience — the...
Doris
Creative Director of Awefa Artfusion
A hospital corridor is not supposed to be beautiful. It is supposed to be functional: wayfinding signs, trolley clearance, hand sanitiser stations. Then a mural arrives — one des...
Dr. Wanida Lewis
Speaker of Crescendo Foods
She could have done the obvious thing. A chemistry degree, a master’s in the same field, and a PhD in Food Science from a recognised institution — these credentials open do...
Edlois Edsam
Vendor of Ednoracasuals
The fashion industry’s relationship with Afrocentric design has been consistently contradictory: celebrated on international runways in “ethnic-inspired” collecti...
Elselund Ewudzie-Sampson
Founder of Big Samps Market
At a tabletop in a Ghanaian neighbourhood, Elselund Ewudzie-Sampson’s mother sold groceries. Not from a storefront, not through a logistics platform, but from a surface in a ...
Energetic EJ
Founder of EJ’s coaching practice
“She is not starting over. She is starting from experience.” This is the distinction that EJ returns to repeatedly in her coaching work — and it is a distinction that...
Erica M. Daniel
Speaker of Intimacy Coaching with Erica
Most people invest years and significant resources into their professional development, and almost nothing into understanding their own intimate lives. The asymmetry is striking: c...
Ernestina Yaa A. Kobi
Founder & Perfumer of SANHWE Scentuary
Founder of SANHWE Scentuary
Esinam Esi Gadzekpo
Founder and Creative Director of Tasuntí
You have walked into enough fitting rooms to know what you are looking for, even when you cannot name it precisely. Clothes that don’t require you to become smaller to wear t...
Evelyne Afaawua
Founder of Nappytalia
In 2014, a Black woman living in Italy opened a Facebook group for other Afro-Italians. This is, in retrospect, the origin story of a cosmetics company now headquartered in Ghana t...
Eyram Annan-Wuaku
Vendor of Respect Health
Eyram Annan-Wuaku did not decide to found Respect Health because she identified a large addressable market in healthcare delivery. She decided to found it because she had watched p...
Grace Krobo-Edusei
Founder /CEO of Grace Centre for Growth and Excellence
Founder of GRACE CENTRE FOR GROWTH AND EXCELLENCE
Hanna Atiase
Speaker of E.Wells Realty & Consultancy
Accra’s real estate market in 2014 was a study in contradictions. A city growing rapidly, an urban middle class with real purchasing power, an emerging interest from internat...
Jacintha Tamakloe
Vendor of Sector’s Hun
On busy market mornings, Jacintha Tamakloe keeps her attention on two priorities at once: flavor and heritage. She founded Sector’s Hun after noticing that dried and smoked s...
Jackie Lily
Vendor of Shop Your Style
Growing up in Ghana shaped that perspective. Lily watched women use fashion as language, signaling identity, ambition, and self-respect through practical choices, not just expensiv...
Jesse
Project Director of African Fashion Foundation
Jesse Rannells saw a persistent contradiction in global fashion: African design talent was undeniable, yet structural access to visibility, capital, and influence remained limited....
Jinane
Speaker of Jinane’s Kreations
Jinane approaches events like living narratives, not checklists. Through Jinane’s Kreations, she has become known for transforming gatherings into experiences with emotional ...
Jossy Achkar
Vendor of Crystal Stones
Her perspective was shaped by experiences across Ghana and the diaspora, where she saw both deep respect for traditional wisdom and growing frustration with exploitative wellness m...
Julia Konadu Osam
CEO/MasterMind of Master Class Consulting & Charleston Hotel LTD
Julia Konadu Osam leads with a philosophy that excellence should be transferable across industries, not confined to one lane. As CEO and mastermind behind Master Class Consulting a...
Kai Charles
Founder of Black Girl in Dubai
Charles approaches entrepreneurship as community architecture. She understood early that people were looking for more than listings; they needed trusted pathways to discover each o...
Kukie Essel-Koomson
Speaker of KEK Reinsurance Brokers (Africa) Limited
Kukie Essel-Koomson chose to redirect a London finance trajectory toward West Africa at a moment when many peers stayed on conventional paths. With a Financial Mathematics backgrou...
Kwabena
Vendor of Kwabena The Artist
Kwabena chose creative independence over predictable career paths and turned that decision into a viable artistic enterprise. Through Kwabena The Artist, he has built a practice th...
Lakeshia Ford
Founder of Ford Communications
Founder of Ford Communications
Latifa Adekanla
Founder of Hair and Beauty by Lola
Latifa Adekanla launched Hair and Beauty by Lola at a moment when many women were actively rethinking beauty standards and hair care choices. She recognized that the shift away fro...
Lindiwe Mutungamiri
Speaker of LITH Africa
Her work gained early global attention when Fast Company named LITH Africa a 2021 World-Changing Ideas Honoree. The company has also received support from the Ashesi Venture Incuba...
Lorraine Wright-Boateng MBE
Founder of Lorraine Wright-Boateng Strategic Advisory
Lorraine Wright-Boateng MBE has built a career around one consistent function: creating high-trust bridges between people, markets, and opportunities. With an Oxford Executive MBA ...
Loubna Sabbah
Founder & Director of Social Buzz Agency
Loubna Sabbah spent years coaching entrepreneurs through identity, confidence, and business growth questions before founding Social Buzz Agency. That background gave her a useful a...
Marie Keita Amarteifio
CEO and Founder of Askia Immigration Consulting Services
Founder of Askia Immigration Consulting Services
Marissa
Owner of Brilliant Broker
Her journey was intentionally non-linear. In beauty, she learned how personal presentation can shift self-perception and external response. In business advisory settings, she saw f...
Mavis Tachie-Menson
Founder of Balance Body and Mind
Mavis Tachie-Menson founded Balance Body and Mind after years of watching women pursue fitness through pressure, shame, and disconnection. With more than two decades in wellness an...
michelle
CO FOUNDER of brunches that feel like intimate conversations
Michelle has built her reputation by designing experiences that feel intimate, intentional, and culturally alive. As co-founder behind ventures including FEMME VIBES, The Girls Bru...
Michelle Konadu
Founder of Villa Diaspora
Her model treats hospitality as both service and social bridge. Guests include returning diasporans, expatriates starting new chapters, cultural travelers seeking authentic immersi...
Michelle yeboah
Founder of TMSKDJ
Michelle Yeboah has become one of the trusted names behind Ghana’s most memorable event experiences. The pulse of Ghana’s creative economy beats loudest in the spaces b...
Monica Addo
Founder & CEO of Bonne Graine
Monica Addo is turning one of Ghana’s biggest food-system losses into a practical growth opportunity. In the kitchens and warehouses of Ghana, a quiet revolution is underway....
Mrs Maama Obenewa Davies
Vendor of Madave Accessorize
Maama Obenewa Davies built Madave Accessorize to celebrate bold, intentional styling with commercial discipline. A strong sense of confidence that comes from knowing exactly what y...
Natalia Andoh
Founder of TNA Communications
Natalia Andoh chose to stop renting out her talent on unfair terms and build her own media infrastructure. There is a clear moment when a creative professional stops being a vendor...
Pearl Abbam
Founder of Juweel
The daughter of a fashion designer, Abbam grew up watching her mother transform fabric and vision into wearable art. Those early observations planted seeds, though she wouldn’...
Pearlyn Budu
Speaker of Today, Budu
Pearlyn Budu now advises founders with playbooks tested in the field across high-growth African tech markets. A strong sense of clarity that comes from having worked inside the mac...
Prisca Woedem Abodakpi
Founder of Asiomè
By 2016, Abodakpi had already built credibility as a voice in beauty and personal care, but she wanted to move beyond commentary. The realization that Ghana’s beauty market w...
Rima Chehade Fakhri
Speaker of Purple Café
Rima Chehade Fakhri has shaped Purple Cafe into a wellness destination where design and nutrition work together. A strong sense of courage required to build something beautiful in ...
Rosalin A. Kyere-Nartey
Founder of Africa Dyslexia Organization
Rosalin A. Kyere-Nartey is building continental support systems for dyslexic learners through institutional advocacy. Rosalin A. Kyere-Nartey discovered her purpose not in a boardr...
Sally Cassandra Arnaout
Vendor of Love of a Queen
Sally Cassandra Arnaout is reframing home care as a premium ritual rather than a hidden household chore. A strong sense of alchemy that happens when someone decides to transform th...
Sandra Ama Tikpe
Speaker of Lex Vanem and Associates
Sandra Ama Tikpe is building a legal career defined by rigor, visibility, and long-term institutional ambition. A strong sense of determination that comes from being underestimated...
Sasha Sahnoon
Vendor of SlashBeauty
The Vision Sahnoon’s ambition extends beyond product excellence. She’s building a brand that respects its customers’ intelligence and acknowledges the reality of ...
SKIN GOURMET
Vendor of SKIN GOURMET
The Vision The brand’s presence at curated events like the September Sip ‘n’ Shop has transformed it from a niche concept into a movement, attracting customers wh...
Taneisha Thorpe
Owner of Yoniesencia
Founder of Yoniesencia
Taneka Sawadago
Founder & CEO of Fire On The Runway International
There is a particular kind of resilience that comes from having nothing to lose and everything to prove. Taneka Sawadogo learned this lesson early—at twelve years old, becoming a...
Tonisha Tagoe
Founder of Ladies Entrepreneurship Club
Tonisha founded the Ladies Entrepreneurship Club in London and now operates internationally. She brings a decade of operational experience scaling founder communities and runs SoFE...
Vanya Daryanani
Speaker of Through her health coaching practice and digital platforms, Daryanani
Victoria Eley
Vendor of Motherland Jewels
Victoria Eley is growing Motherland Jewels with a deliberate focus on craftsmanship, culture, and customer intimacy. A strong sense of courage required to build beauty on your own ...
Victorine Sarr Awuah
Founder & CEO of Lyvv Cosmetics
Victorine Sarr Awuah left global corporate roles to build inclusive organic beauty for underserved consumers. When Victorine Sarr Awuah walked away from a senior marketing position...
Wassa pulcherie yao
Vendor of Kimowa
Wassa Pulcherie Yao is positioning Kimowa as a modern expression of African aesthetics in everyday fashion. A strong sense of conviction that surfaces when someone decides to honor...
Yvette
Artist/ Teacher of Mastermind Project
Her journey to founding The Mastermind Project wasn’t born from a business school epiphany or a five-year plan. It emerged from a fundamental observation: the most talented a...
