Author name: Deborah Sowah

A free, bilingual digital safety course equips young people with practical habits to protect their money, data, and future careers as mobile money scams and AI-driven phishing surge across the continent.  ACCRA, GHANA – October 5, 2026 – To counter a growing epidemic of online fraud during Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October, JA Africa has […]

The journey of Peniel Obeng, from a small coastal town in Ghana to the continental stage in Kigali to a full scholarship at African Leadership University  Peniel Obeng grew up in a coastal community in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. “Home was manageable growing up,” he says. “I lived among a small, close circle of

ECO TWIST, a waste-recycling venture founded by participants of the 2025 JA Social Equity Program in Sierra Leone, has been selected among the Top 60 startups at the 2nd ECOWAS Startup Awards 2026, held at the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. The team earned its place from a pool of 10,900 applicants, putting it in

JA Rwanda has reached 527 students in just two weeks as it rolls out the JA Digital Entrepreneurship Education Platform (JA DEEP) in schools across the country. The program helps students build the digital, entrepreneurial, and employability skills they need to succeed in school and beyond. During each session, students explore the platform’s learning modules

What starts as a simple classroom idea can quickly turn into an international journey. For four Rwanda Coding Academy students, team AgroHaven became their ticket to building real leadership skills and representing Rwanda on Africa’s biggest student entrepreneurship stage.  Below, the four team members reflect on their standout moments with JA Africa and the JA Africa Company of the Year 2025. 

Q&A Feature  JA Africa: Take us back to the beginning. Where was the team before the JA Social Equity Program?  Team Pharma Express: Before the JA Social Equity Program, each of us had our own separate path and individual business ideas, but we shared one common drive: we wanted to build something that solved real problems in our

In Tenkodogo, eastern Burkina Faso, a young entrepreneur is building an aquaponics enterprise that could help reshape how his community grows food. His name is Issouf Kabre, winner of the 2024 Social Equity Program (SEP) Innovation Challenge, and his venture, Nafa’Koom, is a story of what happens when mentorship meets ambition. Issouf Kabre, 2024 SEP

Imagine packing up your office because you can’t pay rent, while staring at thousands of dollars in unpaid client invoices sitting on your desk. Invoices that, if paid that day, could have covered four years of overhead. That exact moment of heartbreak didn’t stop Tanzanian entrepreneur Walter A. Rwiza, founder and CEO of InvoPay. Instead,

ACCRA, GHANA — JA (Junior Achievement) Africa and the Prudence Foundation today mark the launch of the 2026 Cha-Ching Curriculum Implementation Program, their most expansive collaboration since the partnership began in 2016 across five sub-Saharan African countries and running through March 2027. This decade-strong partnership scales its most ambitious cycle yet, equipping primary school children