Summit about Educating the Young Entrepreneurs

Many African students tend to give food priority before any learning is done in those learning institutions until they come to realize later on that food was not as important as the teacher. The school provides a good environment for modeling one’s behavior, for example, the friendship developed at school helps one as a support system in whichever business or career one enrolls in after school. The friendship, food, and teachers reflect the current hardship that the African startups are going through.

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) which was organized in Lagos, Nigeria gave various talks on the topic of the future of African startup funding. The African past is always reflected in the future. Most of the African talent and entrepreneurs get very little attention. African leaders who knew the importance of trade opened up the continent’s border to the whites who came with religion. Through the adoption of the religious faith together with practices like the slave trade, are what brought the delay in development and innovation in Africa for years?

The current generation stands a chance of placing the continent into a different innovation map. It’s only through commitment and the right spirit that will enable the continent to have what is seen as the right direction in technological innovations. Africa should not only be seen as the continent for crime and suffering but also as a continent of opportunities. Africa should learn from other continents like America which are known for using various positive ways to make its name known everywhere.

The belief by the Africans that the kingship is greater than the communities is long gone. The notion of creating business empires that only focuses on personalities and individuals will never take the continent far. Rather the entrepreneurs should focus on starting business empires that focuses on the whole community. When the young entrepreneurs embrace the theory of the less control one has over their business, the more likely the business will have growth.