British Council, Ashoka launch virtual entrepreneurship summit today
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Moses Anibaba, British Council’s Regional Director (left) and Pape Samb, Ashoka’s Africa Diamond Leader.
The British Council and Ashoka will, on Thursday, launch the virtual edition of Impact Africa Social Entrepreneurship Summit, which aims to accelerate social innovations in Africa’s most pressing challenges by inspiring and connecting social entrepreneurs, change-makers, investors and other ecosystem stakeholders across sub-Saharan Africa.
A statement said the summit, with the theme “Resilience and Sustainability,” re-designed and re-imagined as a virtual event for the first time, has been extended and expanded to run as a series of programmes over 12 months.