Monthly Archives: July 2015
Success Story from Senegal: Donald Bambara, Founder of Green’Act
Donald Patrick Bambara was born in Burkina Faso less than 25 years ago. He moved to Senegal to pursue the study of Business at one of the top schools in that field in that country, the Institut Supérieur de Management (the Superior Institute of Management) or ISM. While attending the outstanding university, Mr. Bambara was disturbed by […]
Success Story from Nigeria: Dr. Toyin Falola Promotes African Studies
Toyin Omoyeni Falola was born 1953 in Ibadan, Nigeria. In the 1960s, he dropped out of high school to join a peasant rebellion that protested high taxation and the ill treatment of farmers. During and after the rebellion, young Toyin kept wondering why it was that some, including his own grandfather, had to lose their […]
Success Story from Ghana: Dr. Francis Amedahe brings Healthcare to 10,000 Villagers
Francis Kodzo Amedahe was born in the village of Kpoeta in Ghana’s southeastern Volta Region in 1953. Unlike most from his village he had the opportunity to receive an advanced education, including a Bachelor of Education (1984) and Master of Education (1989) from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana, and a doctoral degree […]
Success Story from Zimbabwe: Thomas Mapfumo’s Revolutionary Music
Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo was born in Marondera in 1945, a town southeast of the capital city of Salisbury (now Harare) in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia. He was raised surrounded by farms, forests, and markets for timber, tobacco, corn, dairy products, and beef. When Thomas was just ten years old, his family […]
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