LENJVAL BLOG

  THE FUTURE OF AFRICANS AS DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURS Digital Entrepreneurship is a calling or Vocation to use Digital services or Information Technologies to solve problems affecting the society. It could be using or creating social media platforms to enhance others, for marketing or creating ecommerce platforms for business transactions. This can be achieved by  -  Keenly observing and identifying the problems around us and most often within us,  -  Proposing practical and feasible solutions, -  Making strategic plans  and carrying them out jealously and consistently. Africa is rated 1 st  Continent with over 50% of its population below 20yrs old. This is a significant asset that needs to be put to use to cultivate and create intergenerational wealth before 2030. Other assets which African countries possess amass  are  Lands, Green Environments, fertile soils, wild life species, mineral resources and most importantly Women. There is need f...

  My country Cameroon, as well put on https://www.everyculture.com/Bo-Co/Cameroon.html, has diverse cultural, religious, and political traditions as well as ethnic variety. English and French are her official languages, a heritage of her colonial past as both a colony of the United Kingdom and France from 1916 to 1960. This means two of the most popular languages in the world are used in Cameroon. The above factors and many more, together with her location usually described as “The Armpit of Africa”, sparked a popular stereotype mainly by tourist literature, her being considered “Africa in miniature”. Asserting that she offers all the diversity of Africa, in climate, culture, and geography, within its borders. Some might question this, but based on my experiences and research, I think it might be safe to agree so. Well, let us find out.   In the context of language, not only do her inhabitants speak both English and French, regarded as some of the most popular languages in...

Let me start by borrowing the popular phrase “Entrepreneurship is not from an idea to a project, It is from a problem to solution” by Dr. Claudelle Noumbissi . Identify an external problem, work towards solving it, develop a sustainable solution, test it with your entourage, sell the solution to others facing the same issue.  10 WAYS ENTREPRENEURS SHOULD THINK. To win more, find out how things work. Create Solutions to problems while using as few resources(financial, time, etc) as possible(cheap but rich solutions). Use your brain to the fullest. Else you'll be overcome by machines and Artificial Intelligence (which are faster, more efficient, and don't receive a salary like you, etc). Update yourself with the internet else you'll become obsolete. Form a good team with whom to tackle the project with. While recruiting, in order not to end up with a funny group, identify people with similar goals, whose personal dreams tie with the company's dreams. If you fire people, ...

                                                                          Africa is home T here has always existed a family of Africans with similar cultures and togetherness. The Ga people of Ghana referred to this family as Jaku. This implies that every person with a drop of African blood in him or her is a member of the Jaku. This is because African culture does not consider any child as illegitimate or inferior. Meaning all Africans fall under a tree of togetherness. During the era when racism did not exist but virtue, some Africans including Severius Septimius(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus) became emperors of Rome and some of the early Popes and saints of the Christian Church like Saint Augustine and Saint Maurice were Africans. But today, things have changed. The thirst fo...

  CHANGING THE NARRATIVES ABOUT JOBS IN AFRICA   When my mother returned from Canada for  this  Christmas holiday  2020  in Cameroon, we had a conversation about my 3 months old small Chips and other Snacks business that I started and  that al most  broke  my heart. This is how  the discussion  went.    Mama :  Ma  pikin , she asked, you di plan for do this your  small business so for how long? Me :   i  di plan for  doam   sotae  e   kam  ton into some big company. My  mother  :  for this very country Cameroon ? You  don  see who  doam ? Just  Forget that   tin .  Master of Event at Javnyuy Joybert's Master Class  She then advised me to do the business for a while, then use the profits to find a  way and travel abroad where  i  could work for handsome paychecks. The conversation ended up  in a  disa...

    PRICE versus VALUE I​t is the early hours of January 16 and I am walking to school. On arriving on campus, I met this guy having a discussion with his friends. In a proud rhetoric, he asked them if they knew the price of his sandals. At first, I thought it was just one of those guys who bragged about the price of everything they owned. I had a second thought and this time around, it was different. Does the price really matter? I asked myself. Which is more important? Is it price or value? Price simply refers to the financial reward you get from offering a product or service. On the other hand, value is what a customer believes a product is worth to him/her. How do we even make such a comparison? From a producer sentiment, price is or rather should be determined by one factor; “being able to sell as much as possible at a price as high as possible in order to make as much as you possibly can.” Of course prices are predominantly determined by the forces of demand and supply a...

 We are in the middle of the 19th century and a repeat of the event of 1885 is about to take place. This time around, it is no longer the scramble of Africa but the scramble for independence. After a century long period of colonial rule, it was finally time for our ancestors to be set free, not from slavery in a foreign land but in their own home. As expected, this motion was met by a lot of resistance by the European powers who wanted to hold onto these countries for nothing else but their selfish gains. Who in their right minds will give up what enriched him and his comrades I am sure they asked themselves? Perhaps they were already devising the means by which they were going to hold longer unto the land so that they could drain the people completely of what they had left. Whatever the case, fate already had it that it was finally time for the liberation of the people. It wasn’t any more about choice or will but rather, it was about the timing. In all these, were we really ready ...

AFRICA CAN ONLY BECOME EMERGENT DURING THIS DECADE IF HER WOMEN TRANSFORM THEIR CONSUMER / DEPENDENT MENTALITIES TO BECOME CULTIVATORS. Since in time past or antiquity, few females have figured amidst discorveries in modern civilization, Science, technology and Religion. We have big names like,  ⦁ Augusta Ada with her contribution in mathematics and programming of the analytic engine. ⦁ Marie Curie with her discovery of the Radioactive element polonium and Radium. As well as her invention of the mobile x-ray. ⦁ Rosalind Franklin the chemist who discovered the double helix structure of the DNA. Just to mention this few We have also been hearing names like Oprah Winfrey USA, Gini Rometty of IBM, Mother Theresa of Calcutta, Queen Elizabeth of England, Ellen Johnson of Liberia, St. Bakita who have Lead Digital organisations and Religious movements. This is a big proof that the fight for Women Empowerment is yielding its fruits. However, many questions runs in one’s mind; but most...