The list of the selected entrepreneurs for the 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation’s entrepreneurship fellowship has been released officially. It can be accessed here.

Unlike previous years when 1,000 entrepreneurs were selected from across Africa, the number of selected entrepreneurs for 2019 rose to 3050.

The 2019 edition also saw the shortening of the gender gap among selected winners and a surge in the number of submitted applications.

In 2015 when there 20,000 applications, 76% of winners were male male while only 24% were female. But for 2019 edition, there were a total of 216,000 applications out of which 58% were male while 42% of 3,050 selected entrepreneurs were female.

“Our dream is to see both men and women rising to build businesses that will transform Africa,” the foundation said.



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