Shorts & Hustler Profiles

Founder & CEO / Savanna Logistics

Amina Hassan built Savanna Logistics from a single delivery motorbike to a fleet of 40 trucks operating across East Africa. She closed her first million-shilling deal at 24 and never looked back. She is passionate about women in logistics and runs a mentorship programme for young women in supply chain.

Founder / Kente Steps

Kwame Asante was a senior analyst at a top Ghanaian bank earning six figures when he quit to sell locally made shoes. Today Kente Steps ships handcrafted footwear to 18 countries and has featured in GQ Africa. He believes Africa's future is in manufacturing.

Co-Founder / SolarPulse Africa

Fatima Diallo co-founded SolarPulse Africa to bring affordable solar energy to rural Senegal. Within three years the company had 10x'd revenue by pivoting to a lease-to-own model. She speaks four languages and travels the continent evangelising for clean energy access.

Director / Highlands Fresh Exports

After three years of unemployment following his degree, Daniel Oduya borrowed Ksh 50,000 from his mother and started aggregating avocados from small-scale farmers in the Rift Valley. He now exports over 200 tonnes per season to supermarkets in the UK and Netherlands and employs 120 people.

CEO & Co-Founder / PayEase Nigeria

Chidi Eze dropped out of his Computer Science PhD to build PayEase, a mobile-first financial platform serving Nigeria's unbanked population. The startup processed over $200M in transactions in 2025 and was named one of Fast Company's most innovative companies in Africa.

Founder / Mama Z Foods

Zinhle Dlamini started selling her late mother's traditional Zulu recipes from a food truck in Durban. Mama Z Foods now operates 12 restaurants across South Africa and a packaged food line stocked in Pick n Pay and Woolworths. She was Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 class of 2024.