Meet Samuel Ngwa. He is a Cameroonian coffee entrepreneur based in Minnesota. Ngwa’s path toward becoming an entrepreneur started when he picked
Tanya Van Court lost more than $1 million in stock during the bubble burst in 2001. At the time, she was working for a company in Silicon Valley.
Paul Siguqa, 41, grew up aspiring to be a farm owner. His parents were farmworkers in South Africa’s province of the Western Cape and that fueled
Jalen Bailey is a 14-year-old entrepreneur and founder of Jalen’s Bakery, a business he started in 2016. Bailey started the bakery when he was
At age 21, Alexiou Gibson was told by his doctor that he may not live to be 30 if he did not control his weight. This dire warning set him on a
When COVID shut the world down in 2020, my husband and I went into instant survival mode. I’d been seeing OYNB adverts on and off for about a year
Akeem Akway use to cut hair for his high school basketball mates for a small fee and sometimes for free. It was a craft he practiced after he fell in
Arnold Kubei is a Cameroonian entrepreneur who first migrated to the USA with his mother and brother in 2007. Launching his “American Dream,”
Nakia Vestal was kicked out of her mother’s home when she was 17, with no job, and broke. In a bid to survive, she became a stripper and then
This is a rags-to-riches story of Grace “Spice” Hamilton. The “Queen of Dancehall” music grew up in poverty in the Old Britain community in
Samuel Ndaro is an aeronautical engineer credited with redesigning the scuff plate on some Boeing aeroplanes. He introduced the innovation when
Dominiece Clifton, 34, was working to get her business off the ground when she almost abandoned the idea. She had so many difficulties that she could
Benjamin Cadet is a Ugandan entrepreneur and former Member of Parliament who is into the cultivation of cannabis. He is the CEO of the only company
Temie Giwa-Tubosun is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and founder of LifeBank, a company she began as a startup with two employees. The company
Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, Elsa Majimbo said she wanted to be a comedian but she didn’t know how or when. And when COVID-19 struck, Majimbo,