What's Your Story

In this episode, we talk to Mimi Kufuor, a Ghanaian finance veteran now leading operations at KoinKoin, an Africa-focused cryptocurrency exchange. From her childhood split between Accra and Manhattan, to a creative youth shaped by her dressmaker mother, Mimi explains how she chose economics over early dreams of computer science or law, landed on Credit Suisse’s trading floor, led strategy projects...

On today's episode, we spoke to Yasmin Kumi, the founder of the Africa Foresight Group . Yasmin was born to German and Ghanaian parents and lived most of her life in Germany. She worked as a senior consultant for McKinsey & Company , where she advised clients in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, and South Africa in the consumer goods and banking industry. But in 2016, she decided to start her own comp...

Yanmo Omorogbe is the co-founder and COO of Bamboo, a digital investment platform that gives Nigerians real-time access to buy, sell or hold assets traded on the US stock exchange from their mobile phones or computers. Before becoming COO of Bamboo, Yanmo worked at the Ministry of Power in Nigeria and then worked at an infrastructure investment firm. After struggling to purchase stocks and other a...

Akua Nyame-Mensah is a leadership advisor, certified executive and leadership coach (ICF), recognized L&D facilitator, speaker, and host of the Open Door Conversations Podcast . As a former startup executive, she launched an online platform for the first African-based technology group unicorn, Jumia Group Akua has had the opportunity to live and work in the U.S., Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Sou...

Jorge Appiah is a Ghanaian technopreneur and is the founder of the tech hub called Kumasi Hive and also the EV company SolarTaxi . Jorge founded Kumasi Hive after his university studies which brought in people who had an interest in engineering and making hardware. Later on, with a passion for creating net zero projects, he founded an EV company called Solar Taxi , which manufactures and assembles...

Sylvia Brune is currently the CEO at pawaPass, an inclusive verification platform for Africans that enables access to services using biometrics that can be captured on any smartphone Sylvia started her entrepreneurial journey when she was part of the management team that ran Africa’s first accelerator program, 88mph. The program invested in 45 companies from 2011-2015 across Nairobi and Cape Town,...

For our first episode of Season 3, we spoke to Carmelle Cadet . Carmelle is Haitian but grew up in the US after she emigrated. She worked for IBM for 10 years, focusing on payments and blockchain. But she decided to try to make it out her own and decided to start her own company called EMTECH which focuses on Web3 and digital currencies for countries including Ghana. She raised $4 million from Ven...

It's been a while but we're back! Brand new episodes of What's Your Story will be debuting in March. So stay tuned. Also, please subscribe to our other podcast show, the "Labari Media" podcast where we do interviews with different folks from different sectors in Ghana and Africa. Check out all our shows here: techlabari.com/podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talked to Elizabeth Aggrey, a Partner at the law firm Purple & Ashes. Elizabeth was born in Nigeria and started practicing law after she passed the Nigerian bar. She eventually met and married her future husband who happened to be Ghanaian. She eventually made up her mind to move to Ghana and practice law in the country. She studied and passed the Ghana Bar Exam and eventually set up her Pu...

Christabel E. Dadzie is the founder of Ahaspora, a group that helps professional Ghanaian returnees with help and support. Before Christabel founded the group, she studied international relations at the College of Wooster in 2004 and then went on to continue her graduate study at Colombia University. It was when she returned to Ghana in 2010 that she realized that there was a need for a support gr...

Cecil Senna Nutakor is a renowned social entrepreneur and leading authority on using technology to revolutionize self-paced education in Ghana. Through a combination of self-taught technological innovation skills and professional business development training, Cecil has developed an ICT certificate program used by two universities in Ghana. He is also the founder of eCampus, an online education pl...

Update : This is a rebroadcast episode from earlier in our last season. Adoma Owusu is now working for the MTN Group as head of their Fintech Business Development division. Prior information: Adoma Owusu was the country manager for Visa Ghana. But before she rose to her current position, she started her career in South Africa where she lived as a child. She worked up the corporate ladder at financ...

Bernard Kafui Sokpe is the founder of the digital consultancy company "Brandmeister" in Ghana. He's always been interested in the arts and started graphic designing when he was in school. Bernard got an early start in his career when he worked for Tigo before he transitioned to a Digital Brand Specialist for Vodafone Ghana. He later became the music manager of the musician Mr Eazi an...

Christabel E. Dadzie is the founder of Ahaspora, a group that helps professional Ghanaian returnees with help and support. Before Christabel founded the group, she studied international relations at the College of Wooster in 2004 and then went on to continue her graduate study at Colombia University. It was when she returned to Ghana in 2010 that she realized that there was a need for a support gr...

Dickson Nsofor is an entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to the world of business and technology. He is a Nigerian entrepreneur who obtained a degree in Information Engineering from Covenant University in 2013. He then pursued his Masters in International Business at Nankai University in China, where he started his business career by creating Lixon mobile, a low-cost mobile phone f...

Originally trained as an optometrist in Ghana, Nii Lante Heward Mills, is a phenomenal tech entrepreneur who is passionate about developmental work and reducing health inequalities. Nii is currently the country director at Viamo, leading the charge in bringing digital solutions to communities in need. With his expertise in public health and ICT4D, he's already made a tremendous impact across G...

Ato Ulzen-Appiah is a trailblazing social entrepreneur, consultant, and blogger whose work has made a significant impact on the youth and technology landscape in Ghana. Ato is best known as the co-founder of Barcamp Ghana and Junior Camp Ghana, two organizations that champion youth volunteerism in the country. Ato's academic credentials are as impressive as his social entrepreneurship feats. He ea...

In this episode, we speak to Maureen Okojie a woman who's breaking barriers and revolutionizing the logistics industry in Africa. She's the co-founder of SEND, a digital freight forwarder and customs broker that's solving some of the biggest supply chain problems on the continent. With over 15 years of experience in the logistics industry, Maureen's passion for tech and STEM was ignited during her...

Vanessa Gyan is a Ghanaian media personality, writer, and women's advocate. She is the CEO of The Sincerely, Vee Foundation, a foundation whose main initiative is The Post Pregnancy Boujie Express, a maternal health awareness program aimed at supporting disadvantaged families. She's a Brooklyn College alumna who earned certifications in TV/radio communications, public relations, and journalism. He...

Cynthia Ofori-Dwumfuo has always been a "go-getter", a trait evidenced by her work ethic which earned her the 2021 Marketing Practitioner of the Year by the prestigious Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG). Known for her creative unconventional style, Cynthia has worked across all MarComms roles with stints in radio and academia. She is currently the Group Head of Marketing and Corp...

Most tech CEOs you see online tend to be a bit straightforward and serious. But that's not really the case with Ethel Cofie.  The CEO of EDEL Technology Consulting was always more of a creative at a young age and that shows with her online presence. She spent most of her university days and early career in the UK before eventually coming back to Ghana where she founded her consultin...

Dave Emnett is the co-founder of Oze, a startup helping entrepreneurs and small businesses to digitally manage their finances. But before he was working Oze with his co-founder Megan McCormick, Dave was working in the Peace Corps and was stationed in Benin, helping a food processing business to get organic certification and export to the US and European markets. Before long, he met Megan who was a...

Nana Akosua Hanson is a Radio presenter at YFM in Ghana. She is also a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. She is also a writer and actor and has starred in various films in the Ghanaian industry. In 2019, she decided to veer into a new space that she hadn't gone before: Graphic Novels. In 2019, Akosua Hanson launched "Moon Girls", a graphic novel series that follows the adventures of fou...

Julian Owusu is the founder of CEO of Zuberi, a startup that helps employees access their earned wages before the end of the month. Julian was an experienced football player at 16 years old and played in leagues in the UK, Ghana, and Amsterdam.  He decided to not fully pursue a career in football and instead went into business and became a Product Manager after spending time at various digita...

Akosua Annobil is the founder and creator of Africa Business 2020 (AB2020) and the Tech In Ghana/UK conference. She was born and raised in London to Ghanaian parents and is a public relations specialist and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the media industry. She worked as an editor at a magazine and was also a radio host. In 2017, she embarked on a new project and created "Tech in...