Actress, Comedian, Media personality and entrepreneur Helen Paul launches her multi-million Naira film academy in Lagos, Nigeria. “Right from childhood, I have always looked forward to a day like this –when I will float a school that will help build a better society devoid of charlatans. For some years now, this project has been in …
Multiple award-winning Nollywood actor and producer Monalisa Chinda is stepping in a whole new direction and set to hit our TV screens with what experts have described as ‘Africa’s most ingenious TV talk-show’. Titled You & I with Monalisa and produced to global standards, the unconventional, thrilling and exciting talk-show is designed to address pressing …
CNN Inside Africa features Ghana’s film director Shirley Frimpong-Manso, a woman rewriting stories of African women, one movie at a time. Watch and enjoy. Photocredit: Shirley Frimpong-Manso FB fan page. Ladybrille MagazineFounded in 2007, Ladybrille® Magazine is a California based pioneer digital publication demystifying the image of Africans in the west through contemporary African fashion …
Conference Launching in Greece Seeks to Help Take Startups to The Next Level Cambridge, MA—October (3), 2014: MIT Enterprise Forum (www.MITEF.org), MIT’s nonprofit global organization dedicated to helping early-stage entrepreneurs succeed faster, is pleased to announce the StartSmart program. StartSmart (www.mitef.org/startsmart) is a one-day conference offering relevant and experience-based programming, giving entrepreneurs the knowledge to help …
Actress, Philanthropist and Serial Entrepreneur Juliet Ibrahim on her Five Businesses, Steps to Launch Your Own Business, Acting, Divorce & more!
The Ladybrille African Woman Entrepreneur feature focuses on the African Woman in Business and the steps it took her to launch her business and make it successful. In this first installment of the feature on the Ladybrille Woman Podcast show, our special guest is actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist Juliet Ibrahim. The twenty eight year old shares the steps she took to launch her salon, modeling agency, retail store, and her production house. She also discusses her music, her work with her kidney foundation and how she launched the foundation. Finally, she opens up about her divorce from her husband, lessons learnt and provides tips for fellow African women in business. It is an interview you do not want to miss! Listen in and share!
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“My personal failure will be my marriage because I am divorced now… I got married at age 24. We were happy, young people in love but we really didn’t get a chance to really know ourselves. . . somewhere along the line, family members kept coming in saying “oh no, she’s an actress…” I will be there and people will be saying all kinds of stuff and sending him messages saying I am in another man’s car even though I was right there with him…” – Juliet Ibrahim
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“Small businesses are typically the engine of growth in an economy. Studies have shown that small and medium enterprises account for as much as 55% of GDP and over 65% of employment in high income countries. In middle income countries, the numbers rise to about 70% of GDP and about 95% of total employment. However, …