The Magic, Rigor, & Romance of Harambeans
Timothy Maurice interview with Harambeans Founder, Okendo Lewis Gayle on Gray Matter Conversations. Through the Gray Matter Conversations, the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation seeks to initiate conversations that will enable us to share, debate, interrogate and learn in order to create a collective voice into issues related to entrepreneurship education.
Harambeans, the audiobook, is now available on BiB Africa, a venture co-founded by Harambean Arlene Mulder H’21
Okendo Lewis Gayle recently partnered with a new member of the 14th class of Harambeans, Ms. Arlene Mulder H’21, who launched BiB Africa – the first African audio library app preserving African stories, to produce the audio version of his first book ‘Harambeans: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things’.
Oppenheimer Generations Enables Early Stage Harambeans to Raise Over $2M
In partnership with Oppenheimer Generations Philanthropies the Alliance launched the Harambean Oppenheimer Fellowship , a 12-month program that supported the founders of Fineazy, LÜLA, Airgiftr and 3DIMO. The Inaugural cohort of Oppenheimer Fellows met and learned from serial entrepreneurs and global experts in the Alliance across the globe to receive support across four key strategic areas – capital, talent, strategic partnerships and leadership in order to accelerate the growth of their early-stage ventures.
Arlene Mulder H’21 shares BiB’s journey with Smile 90.4FM
Smile 90.4FM interviewed Mr. Okendo Lewis-Gayle, founder of Harambeans and Ms. Arlene Mulder H’21, co-founder of BiB, Africa’s first audio library app preserving the continent’s heritage through digital storytelling.
Leveraging Tech to Improve Access to Specialist Healthcare
In today’s episode we feature Dr. William Mapham H’18, University of Stellenbosch, the founder of Vula Mobile. Vula gives health workers, particularly those in remote rural areas, a tool to get patients quick and efficient specialist care. The app was initially created for ophthalmology referrals, but it quickly became clear that the functionality provided by Vula was widely needed. A redesign enabled the app to scale and now includes referrals for any number of specialties.