The Vim Views & Versions - Blogs of a MIghTy African

If you’ve been following my journey, you know I am deeply passionate about strategic social capital , youth employment, startups scaling , and generally creating, promoting or driving the structural conditions for luck and opportunity to collide. We recently saw this exact magic come to life on the global stage at the World Summit Awards ( WSA ) Global Congress in Hyderabad , India in 2025 and then Vienna, Austria in 2026. Witnessing exceptional Ghanaian innovations break through and get celebrated as WSA winners was an absolute masterclass in what happens when raw local talent meets the right global platform. It proved that our ecosystem is mature, resilient, and ready to compete at the highest levels. Right on the heels of that global inspiration, another massive window of opportunity has just swung wide open for the Ghanaian entrepreneurial ecosystem, and we need to seize it with everything we've got. I have been hearing and sharing about the develoPPP Ventures programme...

Sometime in Q1 2025, my work colleague Richard Mawuko Duttey told me about Jobberman doing features on people around work, etc. He is a big fan of Jobberman, he pretty much got to work for Kosmos Innovation Center thanks to this African built workforce platform. I joined him one fine day to Jobberman's office, hidden somewhere in the central parts of Accra where their comms team recorded a video. I am honored to have been featured by Jobberman in their Time With The Experts series. I remember Jobberman 's early years. I was following them from the Bay Area when it was founded in August 2009 by Olalekan Olude, Ayodeji Adewunmi and Opeyemi Awoyemi in their dormitory in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife to help connect people looking for jobs with companies hiring. I was at Stanford at the time and Museke , the startup I co-founded was more than 2 years old. Many years on, Jobberman thrives and has more than 30 employees in Ghana alone. They have done well.  In this inter...

As you might know, GhanaThink (of which I lead) has been running the #GhanaianDream campaign. Learn about it here & there , and see some social media posts, especially these ones . There are lots of Ghanaian Dream versions by Ghanaians from all walks of life, and all sorts of opinions, needs, wants, beliefs, situations and experiences. What is my Ghanaian dream? Here it is . I have another Ghanaian Dream . One I would love to wake up to. Read on. Start A Ghanaian man / woman wakes up in the morning in his SSNIT Flat in Accra, turns off his alarm clock made in China , and then tunes into the Citi Breakfast Show via the Citi News app . He eventually gets out of his bedsheets sewn in Kumasi , puts on his clothes made by Wear Ghana , belt made in Kumasi, socks from Chale Socks , shoes from Horseman Shoes , puts on his  Caveman watch . He proceeds to have his breakfast -  Brother's Bakery , Tom Brown Mix from Kolikoli , eggs from Ulzenap Farms , drinks his pineappe jui...

On Monday, May 11th, I attended a media briefing which launched E aton Corporation 's operations in Ghana in partnership with a local group of companies INTU. Eaton is the 4th largest electrical company in the world with over 100000 employees globally. With offices and manufacturing lines in South Africa, Tunisia and Morocco, Ghana is a new point of call to drive their business more intimately. Monday marked a milestone in Eaton's business as they launched their operations in Ghana, in conjunction with the INTU group of companies. This launch was organized by Global Media Alliance , the same company which houses YFM, ETV, Silverbird. They do a lot of press relations and marketing work as well. Eaton's interests here were represented by Jerry Sawyerr , who handles their PR in the sub region.  Sumaya Abdool,  the head of marketing for Eaton Electrical in Africa, welcomed us. Sumaya Abdool, marketing manager of Eaton Africa, welcomes us to the Eaton-Intu media bri...

It's been a busy year for the +Barcamp Ghana  program. On Saturday, we have our 14th Barcamp this year, which will also be the 8th Barcamp in Accra, since 2008. Barcamp Accra 2014 is a free networking forum where people will learn from, share and network with each other. It's a place for you to get inspired, motivated, connected, learn about opportunities, learn, share, promote in a fun environment. You won't get the full picture until you come. Or check out some photos . We've championed people starting up, making change, doing and being entreprising. For this Barcamp, we'll focus on how to grow what has been started and is doing well. Go on, register here ! The +Barcamp Accra  team has seen a lot of changes, and this is also mostly because the  +GhanaThink Foundation  is growing. Folks move on to new roles, responsibilities, etc. As such this year's team is pretty new. In fact, most of the core team was not directly involved in organizing Barcamp Accra 20...