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  My journey didn’t begin in a living room with a famous or successful business man or politician in Ghana . It traces back to the vibrant, intellectually charged environment of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology ( KNUST ) campus in Kumasi , Ghana. Growing up, my parents were senior lecturers , and I was immersed in an academic ecosystem that felt both comfortable and, in a way, predetermined. There was an unspoken expectation—the path of least resistance—that I would follow in their footsteps, attend KNUST , and continue that cycle. This reflection comes after an insightful conversation I had with Kwame Boateng of Africa Capital Connect , where we dug deep into the origins of my entrepreneurial path [ 03:10 ]. You can watch our full, wide-ranging discussion on the Africa Capital Connect YouTube channel here: But there is a specific kind of entrepreneurial spirit that is often forged in the fires of teenage rebellion. At that stage in my life, I felt an i...

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...

Before I returned to Ghana on August 17, 2011 , I had never been to any other African country. By 2014, I had been to Nigeria several times but never to Abuja. SHAPE Africa 2014 took me to Nigeria’s capital for the first time. I knew Abuja was a planned and built capital for Africa’s most populous nation, and I was really curious to experience what that looked like, and meant. I didn’t descend on this Federal Capital Territory just for this conference, but also discover it, chill, network, build great memories, etc. The small, chaotic, beautiful moments that still make me smile years later, now. Like I do for most trips to places I have never been, I hit up my friends who are based there or from there. In my email I added, “I am coming to Abuja o! …. We for meet and yarn plenty o!” I stayed with my friend in Wuse 2 Central . Crazily, some bombings had happened in Abuja which had us “at attention!”. But we were put “at ease!”. We marched on to Nigeria’s capital through an Arik Air f...