The Afropreneurs International Network is an initiative that aims to support the development and growth of startups and African companies that produce or distribute products, services or brands made in Africa.
This Network offers its members a platform of mutual aid between African entrepreneurs. It is also a place of exchange and sharing of opportunities, B2B networking, training, financing, visibility, sales and promotion of companies and African Startups. He was initiated by Billy Issa from Kinshasa and Arsène Boukoulou from Brazzaville.
The promotion of made in Africa, a priority of this network
According to the initiator of this platform, « Africa is a sleeping giant, the day it wakes up, the world will tremble. This visionary believes that the time has come for the world to be shaken because of the awakening of the African giant and that goes through Afropreneuriat.
Hence, the need to push Africa to produce what it consumes, but also what the world will consume tomorrow.
Indeed, according to studies by INED, Africa has more than 1.2 billion inhabitants (2017) and this figure will double by 2050. Such a market must above all benefit the Afropreneurs, think Billy Issa.
In this perspective, this Afropreneurs International Network connects entrepreneurs from here and the diaspora who have the ambition to produce what Africa and the world of tomorrow will consume.
He has set up a fundraising program called FUNDRAISING 4 AFRICA STARTUPS for the development and expansion of Startups and African companies members of the network.
This network is also considering a virtual marketplace called MADE IN AFRICA which will be the Amazon or the African Alibaba where African brands can be sold.
Nadine FULA