Sukuma Afrika Campaign

Sukuma Afrika Young Entrepreneurs Competition Campaign

The Young Entrepreneurs Awards

Sukuma Afrika was established in recognition of the critical role young entrepreneurs and the Diaspora play in the fight against poverty as the generation that will be responsible for reaching the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. The competition encourages young people across Africa to engage in ventures with a social angle and is opened to African youth up to 35 y/o presenting a for-profit business model which contributes to one of the MDGs.

We proundly announce YEC 2009 finalists!

Congratulations to our finalists. They have been hand picked by our judges panel amongst 17 shortlisted canidates and out of over 150 applicants. The winners will be announced on June 9th 2009 in Cape Town.

The competition is organized in 5 categories

Category MDG 1 on poverty and hunger
Category MDG 2 on education
Category MDG 3 on gender equality
Category MDG 4,5,6 on health related issues
Category MDG 7 on environment

The Awards Ceremony

The competition aims to bring exposure to the outstanding efforts of the winners and to connect them with stakeholders in a position to help them expand their businesses. To that end, Sukuma Afrika targets prime events to hold its yearly awards ceremony.

The 2009 Awards Ceremony will be held at a Annual Conference of the Global Business School Network which invites the business community to focus on partnerships and specifically business schools as development partners. This roundtable will be a side event to the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town on 9th June 2009.

Go to conference page

Download Agenda

The Competition timeline

16th October 2008: Opening Call-to-entries
30th March 2009: Closing Call-to-entries
15th April 2009: Announcement of the shortlisted candidate selected by the Sukuma Afrika Team
9th May 2009: Announcement of the finalists after Jury Deliberation
9th June 2009: Awards Ceremony

Application process

Simply download the application form and the declaration of non-prosecution, fill it in and return it before 30th March 2009 to competition@sukumaafrika.org 

Application form

Declaration of non prosecution 

Competition judges

Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem - Director, UN Millennium Campaign Africa
Mr. Ato Afful- Managing Director, Ogilvy Africa
Mr. Alex Okosi - Senior Vice President and Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa
Dr. Pauline Jansen – President, Africa Youth Foundation
Mr. Lamesh Mbise – Vice President, Junior Achievement
Mrs Mtoba – Chairman, Deloitte South Africa
Mr. Iqbal Survé – Chairman – Sekunjalo Capital

Winners of the 2008 Competition