Educate Ethical and Innovative Leaders for Africa

This semester, a new elective course on Social Enterprise is being launched at Ashesi to expose students to the world of social entrepreneurship and explore how social enterprises help to unleash social change. The course will cover the components of successful social enterprises, the skills needed to run such an enterprise, and models of leading social enterprises in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa. 

Farmerline, a local agribusiness tech firm, will assist with the course by guiding students through the process of building a social enterprise. "It will be great to see the next generation of business leaders who are conscious about creating impact not just for themselves, but for other people," says CEO and founder of Farmerline Alloysius Attah. Students will design social enterprises from ideation through implementation that address two major challenges in Ghana and throughout Africa: improving learning quality in primary schools and reducing corruption in business and civic life. 

This will be a challenging undertaking, but Professor Jon Isham, the course's designer and instructor, believes that "if we get this right, it will also be enormously rewarding. It will help students to learn how Africa's business, non-profit, and policy leaders can support effective social enterprises." Thank you for helping to make relevant courses like this Social Entrepreneurship elective possible!