African businesses

African Entrepreneurship Forum 2021

African Entrepreneurship Forum 2021

The Youth Café was honored to speak at the African Entrepreneurship Forum, that took place virtually on the 30th of November, 2021. The Youth Cafe’s Executive Director, Willice Onyango and a young entrepreneur from our network, Glodine Ndhlovu who is a young business woman and speaker from South Africa

The Youth Cafe's Remarks At Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic ( BAME ) Conference

The Youth Cafe's  Remarks At  Black, Asian, And Minority Ethnic ( BAME ) Conference

There was last year a study was done about venture, the venture funds that come into the African continent and most especially the East African region. It was 90% of the total venture capital fund that came out from abroad, went into white-run start-ups. So we become a minority in our own certain because we don’t have that access to funding. And this can easily, easily be swayed off if we just build systems that sort of bridge the gap.