Afua Osei and Yasmin Belo-Osagie, Co-Founders, She Leads Africa
Afua Osei (Ghanian, 27) and Yasmin Belo Osagie (Nigerian Ghanian, 25) are the co-founders of She Leads Africa, “a platform that provides the most talented female entrepreneurs across the continent with access to the knowledge, networks and financing needed to build and scale strong businesses.” Osei and Belo-Osagie have recruited over 1,000 woman-led start-ups into their network and they aspire to engage at least 10,000 women entrepreneurs by 2015. The young power women launched an entrepreneurship competition, raking in nearly 400 applications from 27 countries. Both currently hold full-time positions at McKinsey & Company, but we have a feeling it won’t be long before these two are in full-time business for themselves.