The Social Business- Africa Initiative was launched with support from The Seven Fund: Enterprise Solutions to Poverty.

Social Business Resources

Nurture Entrepreneurs in Africa

In the last few months, the number of entrepreneurship workshops and trainings in Africa has increased. Entrepreneurship has become the next big thing in the continent and many young graduates are opt ...

Investing In Africa

Google Launches African Technology Incubator

Internet giant Google has announced the launch of Umbono, a Cape Town-based technology incubator that will provide qualifying internet and mobile technology entrepreneurs with seed capital, mentorship and six months' office space and free bandwidth. By bringing ...

The Social Business- Africa Initiative (SBAI)

There is a growing phenomenon taking place in now in developing countries, particularly in Asia, that merits further exploration as one solution to addressing key development challenges in the area of sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, environmental conservation, health, water and sanitation, and access to electricity, and ICT. This is the concept of funding young entrepreneurs in developing countries to undertake innovative businesses that address pressing social problems by providing access to funding and business incubation for innovative businesses seeking to address the needs of the masses at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

African Business Innovators

The entrepreneurs profiled in this section are examples of the type of socially conscious entrepreneurship and innovation that SBAI seeks to support. We believe that they are role models that represent a new type of African business leader that looks, not only at profit, but at the social and environmental impact of business activities to be undertaken.