Yale Africa Week
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SPEAKERS
Tara Fela-DurotoyeLawyer, Make-up ArtistMrs. Tara Fela-Durotoye is the founder and current Chief Executive OfficerHOUSE OF TARA International. She is a veteran in the beauty industry, who
pioneered the bridal make up profession in Nigeria.
She is a Lawyer from Lagos State University who started business whilst an
undergraduate. Tara is a trained and certified make up artist of Charles Fox,
Convent Garden London.
In a series of firsts, she set up the first make up studio and established the
country's first make up school. Whilst the nation was yet catching its breath,
Tara launched the TaraProductline, a brand that promotes ethics and ethnicity,
by empowering young women for economic independence without moral compromise,
just as it flies the proudly Nigerian flag.
Tara started the chain reaction that has produced a large number of make
up artists (1000 via the make up school); some are now active players in
Nigerian beauty industry.
Under her leadership House of tara has trully become a national brand with 22
branches nation wide and presence in most major cities across the country
She has received several national and international Awards for her
contribution to the industry and active role in Empowerment. She was awarded
the Africa SMME Award and the Entrepreneur award in South Africa.
She has been recognized by The World Economic Forum as a young global leader
and a member of the African leadership Network(ALN)class of 2014
Tara is happily married to Fela Durotoye and is blessed with three sons.
Sangu DelleEntrepreneur | Pan-Africanist | clean water activist | Student | DreamerBorn in Ghana, Sangu was fortunate to have been awarded a full merit scholarship to attend the Peddie School, a boarding school in New Jersey. He then went on to Harvard University, where he was inspired to pursue social and economic entrepreneurship. Sangu graduated from Harvard with highest honors in African Studies and Economics, where he was awarded the Thomas Hoopes Prize, the Reverend Peter Gomes Prize, the Philippe Wamba Prize, the Deshaun Hill & Harvard Stephens and the Maurice Sedwell Prize among others. In 2014, TED selected Sangu as a 2014 TED Global Fellow, Forbes named him as one of Africa’s top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs and Euromoney selected him as one of Africa’s Rising Stars ( “outstanding individuals and power brokers who are changing the financial, investment and business landscape in Africa”). PolicyMic named Sangu as one of 9 entrepreneurs in the millennial generation making a difference. YouthVillage named Sangu “Top 30 Most Inspirational Young People in Africa in 2014.” In 2012, the Huffington Post named Sangu “an intriguing African to watch out for” and Fortnight Journal named him “one of the promising leaders of the millennial generation.” In 2005, Sangu was featured in TIME magazine’s Tomorrow25 as one of 25 future world leaders.
Lindiwe MazibukoPolitician, former DA Parliamentary Leader and Leader of the Opposition in the National AssemblyLindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland. She decided to stand for public office in 2008 and was elected to Parliament in 2009 when she was appointed the DA’s National Spokesperson and Shadow Deputy Minister for Communications. In 2010 she became the Shadow Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform. In 2011 Mazibuko was elected as the DA’s Parliamentary Leader and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, making her the youngest Black woman leader in the history of the DA’s parliamentary caucus.
Lindiwe Mazibuko was named South Africa’s Most Influential Woman in 2012.
Mazibuko temporarily resigned from her position as DA Parliamentary Leader, as announced by her on 11 May 2014, to study at Harvard University in the United States for a year.http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/lindiwe-mazibuko
Clare AkamanziCOO, Rwanda Development BoardClare Akamanzi is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), a government institution in charge of accelerating economic growth and development in Rwanda. Prior to this, she was Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Business Operations and Services at RDB, in charge of investment promotion, export promotion, enterprise development and business facilitation through investment climate reform, company registration and environmental clearances. Prior to RDB, Akamanzi was Deputy Director-General of the Rwanda Investment and Export Promotion Agency (RIEPA), a position she held from 2006-2008. She was also Rwanda's commercial diplomat in London and a trade negotiator in Geneva for the Government of Rwanda at the World Trade Organization. Akamanzi is an international trade and investment lawyer. She attained her law degree in Uganda, and a Master's in International Trade and Investment Policy in South Africa and the Netherlands. -
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