Entrepreneurship in Nigeria/Africa

• How a Kenyan furniture maker captured the high-end market with a unique idea : Toby Dickinson, a Tanzanian-born entrepreneur, runs a high-end furniture business that targets this market segment. Dickinson is the owner and managing director of Indian Ocean Creations which makes furniture using wood from ancient dhows (traditional sailing vessels).
• Nigerian-American Entrepreneur Uses Playtime to Change the World : The SOCCKET, an energy harnessing and supplying soccer ball invented by social entrepreneurs Jessica O. Matthews. As social science students at Harvard University, the two teamed up for a project in their class on engineering for non-engineering majors. Faced with the task of devising a solution to a problem facing the world, Matthews and Silverman dreamed up the innovative concept in 2008.

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