Be Your Own Boss (Entrepreneur Movement)

     The google hash code challenge is a programming competition organized by google for students and industry professionals across Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Since it is team based, you get to pick your team and programming language while Google picks a real life engineering problem for you and your teammates to solve. image source: clickinfo.com.ng

     The Tony Elumelu Foundation has started accepting applications from African entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that can transform the continent.  The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 by Nigerian businessman, Tony Elumelu,  with the sole aim of promoting excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa. image source: pulse.ng

     The Google Online Marketing Challenge provides a platform for students to experience as well as create online marketing campaigns using Google Adwords.  In the past 9 years, a plethora of students and professors from at least 100 countries have participated. The challenge is open to student teams of a minimum of three and a maximum of six members from undergraduate or graduate programs, irrespective of their major. image source: tarcsoft.com

     The World Photography Organization in partnership with ZEISS have announced the commencement of the second edition of the ZEISS Photography Award 'Seeing Beyond', with the theme "Meaningful Places". ZEISS started this competition to challenge photographers the world over to " look beyond the ordinary and capture the extraordinary things that exist in the world we live in, by documenting the importance of one or several places that bear significance to each other" . source: lensipre.zeiss.com

     The Africa Food Prize  is the preeminent award for recognizing the extraordinary individual or institution whose contributions to African agriculture are forging a new era of sustainable food security and economic opportunity for all Africans. image source: utibeetim.com

     Rockefeller Foundation Cassava Innovation Challenge, a global competition offering up to $1 million in funding to novel solutions that can increase the shelf life of cassava. Cassava Innovation Challenge 

      Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE) is a subsidiary of the National Innovation Technology Development Agency (NITDA) with the responsibilities to nurture, cultivate and expand the ICT innovation and entrepreneurship within Nigeria in line with NITDA Act 2007 and National ICT Policy. NITDA

     The Africa Prize encourages ambitious and talented sub-Saharan African engineers from all disciplines to apply their skills to develop scalable solutions to local challenges, highlighting the importance of engineering as an enabler of improved quality of life and economic development. 

     Apply for the  Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Regional Leadership Center (RLC) Emerging Leaders Program  – A President Barak Obama and  USAID youth initiative !

    Are you a Nigerian between the ages of 18 and 40 with innovative entrepreneurial ideas in Agriculture Creative economy or information and communication technology but in need of funding?  Try YESGrant.  Yes Grant

      It's happy times for African entrepreneurs as MTN and Jumia have decided to partner to support the business ideas of young entrepreneurs in Africa with their Pan African Entrepreurship Challenge.   MTN Entrepreneurs Challenge.