Picture yourself waiting to board a plane. Then, suddenly, you’re being escorted to a cell, informed that you’re wanted by Interpol. That’s exactly what happened to Marek Zmysłowski, a high-tech entrepreneur who was on his way back to Nigeria, where his business was. Marek found himself in the crosshairs of a nasty guy who was an investor in his company. This week, we’ll hear his story about launching businesses, being locked up, and then returning to Nigeria to lift the lives of marginalized young women through the MaYa Foundation. 

Links

• Chasing Black Unicorns - How Building the Amazon of Africa Put Me on Interpol's Most Wanted List
• Marek Zmysłowski Web Site
• Marek Zmysłowski TED Talk - How building Africa`s Amazon made me Interpol most wanted criminal
• MaYa Foundation
• Feed for Life Foundation

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