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The EntrepreneursEureka: Charging ahead with Ghana’s first e-bike makerThe co-founder and CEO of Wahu Mobility, Valerie Labi, talks about launching Ghana’s first electric-bike manufacturer, scaling the business despite early doubts and her plans to expand into new markets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-07-2516 min
Women Leading Change (Sahel and West Africa Club OECD/SWAC)E-mobility: a new opportunity to look at transport in Africa differently?How do we create a policy environment that embraces innovation and empowers us as young Africans to design transport solutions that suit our context?” In this episode, Valerie Labi, shares her broad, ambitious, multi-sectoral vision of the future of transport in Africa. For Valerie, it’s important for Africa to design its own e-vehicles, produce them locally at scale, and become a thought leader and innovator in the e-vehicle space. She speaks to the gendered dimensions of transport, highlighting opportunities to
support women to transition to e-bikes, allowing them to not only reduce time spent physically carrying goods, but empowering them...
2024-03-0825 min
DECIDING TO WINThe Sparks of Change: How a Ghanaian Company is Revolutionizing Sustainable Mobility in AfricaIn this episode of "Deciding to Win," we had the pleasure of speaking with Valerie Labi, an innovative C-Level leader who is making waves in the African mobility space. Valerie is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mana Mobility, a German-Ghanaian enterprise that is creating an ecosystem for e-mobility solutions in Africa, with the core of operations in Ghana.
During our conversation, Valerie shared her inspiring story of how she started her career in the corporate world, but her passion for sustainable social enterprise growth and impactful business transformation strategies led her to co-found Mana Mobility. She is...
2023-02-2035 min
Lost Immortals and Radio Hieroglyphics with Roy Stannard and Matt StaplesThe Whole Nine Yards Ep 82 21.8.22 Lost in the Seventies with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FMThe Whole Nine Yards Season 2 Episode 82
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday August 21st 2022 3-5pm
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listenlive
Lost in the Seventies
Although I was born in the 50s when Heartbreak Hotel was Number One, and was a teenager in the 60s when all boys had to be either Paul McCartney or John (Lennon in my case) when my interest in music as a subculture began, I came of age in the early Seventies. The decade which arguably had the most d...
2022-08-211h 50
Glocal CitizensEpisode 127: Crowdfunding African Agribusiness with Nana Opoku Agyeman-PrempehGreeting Glocal Citizens!
In our conversation this week, I am inspired by the work of this high growth serial entrepreneur with experience building businesses in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Ghana. As a strong believer in constant learning, building and improving on existing solutions Nana Opoku Agyeman-Prempeh is excited about the church, aviation, technology and agriculture. Born and raised in Ghana, he has an academic background in Technology and Entrepreneurship from Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and an MPhiL. Agricultural Engineering (Machine Systems) from the University of Ghana, Legon. He has been afforded the opportunity to lead...
2022-05-3149 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 106: Mindset Hacks to Start the New Year!New Year Greetings Glocal Citizens!
As we usher in 2022 aka double deuces, this week’s episode is all about mindset. We’re going back into the Global Citizens archive for a compilation of mindset hacks from early guests of the podcast. In case you’e new to the podcast and not unlike some of my guests you might be wondering what is a mindset hack? Well, a description that I quite like is that mindset hacking is exploring the limits of what is possible, seeking excellence, or even balance which entails doing something exciting and meaningful, deliberately finding opport...
2022-01-0419 min
Glocal CitizensEpisode 10: Driving Social Change and Innovation with Valerie Labi, Country Director @iDEglobal.orgThis week we meet social innovator, Valarie Labi at the iDE-International Development Enterprises offices in the heart of Accra's innovation hub in Osu. Valarie is the iDE Country Director and founder of Sama Sama, a social enterprise catalysing sanitation and hygiene markets by integrating the entire sanitation value chain and with the aim of providing toilets to more than 300,000 people by the end of this year. Among her other hats is rather a crown, she is the Queen Mother of Sanitation, and she was also among the inaugural class of young African Leaders taking part in the Mandela Washington...
2020-02-0428 min