providing solutions to challenges of the 21st century
The food crisis in the Chad basin of Africa can be solved by concerted international donor effort and by establishing security in the wider Sahel region. Watch as Adebayo Alonge proffers solutions to this international crisis alongside Emira Woods of the Institute of Policy Studies on CGTN’s (CCTV Africa) Show- The Heat
Share your thoughts on solutions to this crisis in the comments section of this post.
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Africa needs more Impact Entrepreneurship to solve its many social problems. Conventional capitalism has failed to stop the spread of poverty on the continent. It needs a new type of entrepreneurship- one that has heart.
What is impact entrepreneurship?
Impact entrepreneurship refers to the organisation of factors of economic production- ideas, effort, networks, labour, capital, land, machinery- towards solving a social and/or environmental problem for a neglected population of people, animals or nature in a manner that generates measurable financial returns, social and/or environmental impact.
Examples of impact entrepreneurs include:
5 key features common across these examples and which is important in assessing if a venture is impact entrepreneurship include- Continue reading “Why Africa needs more Impact Entrepreneurship”
As part of enabling the next generation of Africa’s social impact entrepreneurs, a $150K (USD) cash for equity investment opportunity through the Katapult Accelerator exists for an African based startup using exponential technologies i.e. AI, Block chain, Quantum computing etc. to solve a social issue on the African continent.
I am especially interested in nominating startups
Please send a 2pager to lusoy3@yahoo.com by May 19, 2018 and include your WhatsApp number. Title your Email as God’s Plan.
The first page should detail the problem statement, the size of the market opportunity in Africa, your solution, how you came about your solution, your traction i.e. revenues and paying customers, your competition and what you need to scale your solution across Africa, include other relevant info e.g. patents, country of incorporation etc.
The second page should be a Team slide with photos and bios/roles of the team members.
Note: I will only contact those I am interested in nominating by May 20, 2018
Share widely across Africa!
#Gods Plan- Lets make it happen. This is a religious notation for letting God do his work through people and opportunities
Note: This investment opportunity does not come from me. I am only helping to find the best startups in my network for the Katapult Accelerator.
adebayoalonge argues that Africans need to be more aware about how they generate data online and the ways it is being used against them often for free. He asks for people to demand rights to their data.
“It’s insane. The company i.e. Cambridge Analytica has created psychological profiles of 230 million Americans. And now they want to work with the Pentagon? It’s like Nixon on steroids.”
Christopher Wylie, Cambridge Analytica WhistleBlower
As one of the first Africans to use the internet back in 1998, I have seen the internet progress from frontier-like and open one to one chat rooms to consolidated complex data mining social media platforms that sell human data and lives for millions of dollars to politicians and corporations. Unfortunately human users have continued to trust the internet like we did in its early days forgetting that these platforms are no longer the simple unassuming chat rooms of yesteryears but are now money machines whose goal is to make money by selling all aspects of your private life.
Cambridge Analytica is that English political campaign company that aims to help politicians win elections. They and related companies have worked in Nigeria and Kenya with ruling parties. If they went to such questionable extent to steal Facebook data from Americans to help Trump win, think of what they have done in Africa where there is limited to no data governance and rights.
See the links here for more insights-
How much of your data is out there for free? In what ways is it being used against you?
In this article, adebayoalonge argues that widespread access to guns in societies with intense social inequality and intolerance will lead to higher murder rates
February 14, 2018 another high school shooting in the USA. Another mass murder. 19 year old Nikolas Cruz uses an AR-15 assault rifle to kill 17 erstwhile schoolmates in a matter of minutes.
January 1, 2018, Fulani herdsmen kill 83 villagers in the middle-belt region of Nigeria. Another massacre using high grade weapons.
These killings occurred in very different countries. Perpetrated by different people with different motives. Yet these violent incidents are not isolated. They have occurred for decades and will recur because they derive from the same festering social structure. There is a strong relationship between the social structure a country engenders and the type and scale of the murders it experiences. This is what makes the USA and Nigeria similar- both societies propagate inequality and social intolerance.
In this musing, adebayoalonge explores what death means and its purpose from the eyes of an African Millennial
They say that there are only 2 things we know to be certain- taxes and death. That in retrospect seems to be western philosophy. In my case, I was only certain of death when growing up in Africa. From a very early age- perhaps when I was only 5 years old, I realized that taxes may not be demanded or could be avoided. But not death. Death was the god of life.
Continue reading “Musings of The African Millennial: My African Father’s son on death”
In this musing, adebayoalonge reflects on how sons depend on their fathers to navigate the world. He reflects on his earliest memories of his relationship with his father and how he first learned about minimalism.
Fathers play a huge role in the lives of young men. Many African American cultural icons- Tupac Shakur, Meek Mill, August Alsina etc. refer to the sorry state of Young Black America as resulting from the absence of father figures while growing up. Without male role models to provide guidance, young males often get lost in life and have to find their way in the world watching their peers and ‘gangbangers’ who often lead them wrong.
In my case I have had the privilege of having and learning from 2 fathers- my ‘blood father’ and my ‘mentor father’.
In this musing, I will share my first lesson about minimalism that I received from my blood father. Continue reading “Musings of the African millennial: My African Father’s son learning minimalism”
Many people’s lives I have seen go down hill because they stopped dreaming. Don’t stop a man from dreaming
Adebayo Alonge
Take away a man’s ambition and drive. He becomes ordinary even if he was born ingrained with all elements for success
Adebayo Alonge
Dreams are the stuff we create in our minds before others see them
Adebayo Alonge
If they take everything from you don’t let them take your dreams- that is your valid you
Adebayo Alonge
All the 20+ countries I have visited, the hundreds of people I have spoken to and the millions in money I made, I first created in my mind daydreaming from my father’s couch when I was still a child. Dreams are powerful. I am living proof
Adebayo Alonge
