21 minutes with KKB

After quitting her over 20-year banking career she turned to fish farming. But the challenges of being an entrepreneur will prove more costly than she anticipated as she'll soon come to realise. Watch Mabel Quashie, CEO of Aquatic Foods share the story of her journey to becoming the owner of a company focused on empowering the youth though the business of healthy living.#21minuteswithkkb #entrepreneur #Aquaticfoods

A conversation on drugs, sex, aphrodisiacs and a Ghanaian neuropharmacologist’s quest to finding a cure for epilepsy. Listen to this episode of 21 minutes with KKB with a Neuropharmacologist, Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr Priscilla Kolibea Mante.

It was a simple question. One as simple as "why is this bird able to perch on an electric cable without being electrocuted?" The aswer to this question in an explanation that followed led to an idea to create a platform that would help promote STEM educatio in Ghana at a time when many paid little attention to it.Years down the line, the baton has passed to Nana Akua Aboagyewaa Ankomah-Asare, the new Managing Director of Primetime Limited who is harnessing the power of social media, an overzealous youth and the desire for bragging rights to amplify STEM education.Listen to my conversation with her in this episode of the business edition of #21minuteswithkkb

A national service opportunity would lead to a job role, and then a lifetime opportunity of many more of such with major corporations in and outside his home country Ghana as the years go by.A desire to however pursue further studies in the United Kingdom will open Louis up to a whole new set of possibilities, including the potential of actualizing his dream of creating a distinct streaming platform for Africans. Listen to Wi-Flix co-founder, Louis Manu share more in this interview with Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on the Business edition of #21minuteswithKKB.

She was a regular 9 to 5 chic with a side hustle like many. Her base was Atlanta, USA and her shito business was booming. So much so, she needed representatives in Europe and elsewhere to help her meet the demand.A satisfying role, many would assume but her ambition was too huge to allow her settle on booming shito sales only so the African Prodigy decided to go into food processing. Months down the line and Cassandra Ntiamoah would invest nearly a USD 100,000 into a venture only to realise that she was being scammed all this while. Her frustration and desire to retrieve her funds led her to the motherland, Ghana, where as fate would have it, she would discover a business opportunity. Listen to Cassandra Ntiamoah (African Prodigy's) full story in this interview with Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on The Business Edition of #21minuteswithKKB

Sydney Scott Sam is of the view that although entrepreneurship is the big thing to move Africa to where it needs to get, branding is the vehicle to drive the agenda.Sydney Scott Sam is a renowned leader in Africa’s brand marketing space. Young Scott Sam is leading a mission to help one million African entrepreneurs build a strong brand.Through the online platform, Workspace Global, Sydney and his team have built the go-to brand-services marketplace that connects hundreds of African businesses to remote creative talent across the continent.Listen to the full interview with Sydney Sam on the business edition of #21minuteswithkkb here.

He has styled celebrities and artists in UK and US produced movies and series such as Treadstone, popular Nigerian series, Tinsel and a host of others. From styling the wives of Heads of States to working with the Africa Union and an endless list of celebrities in Ghana and Nigeria, Stickz is redefining the game in otherwise unfamiliar territory for a gender like his. Today, Adetola Adesegun Babatunde (Stickz) is not only a celebrity hairstylist managing @stickzbeautyplug. He has also gone into the production of hair products, set up a training hub for young people and consulting for startups.Listen to the full story of Stickz on The Business Edition of 21 minutes with KKB #21minuteswithkkb #stickzbeautyplug #stickz

Dr Maureen Acquaye is a specialized Physician Anesthesiologist who sometimes plays the role of a General Practitioner in the United States of America helping save countless lives in the in level one trauma centers where she works in several hospitals across the United States.A fulfilling mandate, she says of her chosen profession, except there remains a void which is to be filled, that is how BENYIMA FARMS came into existence.The creation of jobs as a way of saving lives and livelihoods in her home country, Ghana.And so the story begins.Years on and Dr Maureen Acquaye’s Benyima farms now employs several hundreds of indigenes on a piece of land covering over 250 acres of tree crops.From Mango to pineapple, coconut etc, Benyima farms is looking to not just produce raw materials but also through its processing plant in North Legon in Accra, process fresh, health centered products for consumption and export.

In 2013, the harsh economic conditions of the country would push a section of Ghanaians who would ordinarily be focused on running their business to form a ‘cult’ with a simple agenda, “campaign for change”.The movement saw the middle class of the country’s populace take a stance against what they termed bad governance at the time.Tonyi was one of such persons who took that stance and went on a demonstration which would send a clear signal to the leadership of the country that it was indeed time for change, except, few months to that protest, Tonyi and his Horseman Shoes brand had received an endorsement from then President, John Dramani Mahama – an endorsement money could not pay for.Seven years on, and Tonyi Senayah is living in regret. Regret for taking part in a movement that some say, got John Mahama to suffer the worst electoral defeat any sitting President has ever suffered. His principle was solid – campaign for a better Ghana, but in the end, Tonyi is bitter about the ‘changed’ Ghana he now lives in.

He was young and smart. So smart that he saw a business opportunity when friends continuously complimented him on how good his feet looked anytime they met.To them, he wore good quality custom made shoes from Italy. The truth, they were the handiwork of Master Effah whose rickety shop was only a few meters away from where Tonyi lived during his National Service days.Tonyi would tell his friends that the shoes were made locally in Ghana, and these friends, the doubting thomases they were, would sometimes place orders with him to get some of these shoes in order to satisfy their curiosity, of course, to also look good and receive compliments from their colleagues as well.This would go on for some time until one friend of Tonyi who worked at Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) also placed an order for a shoe. When the order was met and this friend wore the shoe to work, Tonyi would then realise a real business opportunity.