Akintunde Teslim

I am fundamentally a creative genius with gift of big imagination. I am passionate about applying these gifts, talents and skills across sectors and industries that helps to sustainably solve some of the hard socio-economic problems in Africa like hunger, unemployment, poverty among others.

My passion for solving these problems led me to start OGAFARMER a joint investment platform that helps small holder women farmers to access debt free funding which is given to them as farm inputs to start and expand their farm. We help them with soil data driven agronomy practices that help to boost their crop yield and link them with profitable market. The OGAFARMER now has a new portfolio called Foodcredit - a platform for eradicating hunger and malnutrition in poor African households.

In 2018, I was part of the team that facilitated farmer moni project for 100 women farmers in Ekiti Nigeria for Federal Government of Nigeria's Bank of Industry. A project that gave soft loan of 50, 000 Naira each to women farmer as economic empowerment.

I was selected in 2016 to be part of 1000 entrepreneurs across 51 countries in Africa with unique and scalable business idea in the prestigious Tony Elumelu Foundation where I got my seed capital of $5,000. I was also selected for the Kickstart business Accelerator program funded by International Breweries Plc where I got trained and certified in enterprise development. I am also an Alumnus of British Council Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator program where I got trained and certified in Social Entrepreneurship Management in 2017. I was selected to be part of 25 Agri-tech entrepreneurs in West Africa to participate in popular Pitch Agrihack program at Abidjan - a program organized by Centre For Technical Agriculture and Rural Development in Netherlands.

I am also a business consultant through my consulting agency called Think-novation Africa - a business consulting that have direct impacted over 500 businesses through online and on site trainings, business strategy session, helping them through product development process and business plan development among others.

My passion for writing led me to starting a company called OGA WRITERS - a business writing agency for busy business leaders.

In the end, I want to be remembered for leveraging social entrepreneurship strategies and most definitely the highest expression of my gifts and talents to contribute my quota to the socio-economic development of Africa and the world 🌍.