She Leads Africa and Huawei Technologies have announced the opening of applications for their joint fellowship programme targeting female tech entrepreneurs in Africa.
In a statement made available to Innovation Village, organizers said Huawei-She Leads Africa Fellowship is the first programme of its kind to provide female tech entrepreneurs from across Africa the opportunity to visit China to receive a behind the scenes experience at the technology giant, network with peer entrepreneurs and develop relationships with investors and companies interested in doing business in Africa.
The weeklong program will begin in Shenzhen, China where entrepreneurs will visit Huawei Headquarters, touring the expansive complex, meeting with business leaders and interacting with the company’s latest technologies. The visit will take the entrepreneurs through the inspirational growth story of the technology giant from phone switch manufacturer in 1987 to multinational networking, telecoms equipment, and services company with over 140,000 employees and revenues of over $40bn and operations across the globe.
“We are extremely pleased to partner with Huawei to provide African female tech entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn what it takes to become to build a global company and develop the connections and relationships it takes to make that happen,” says She Leads Africa cofounder Yasmin Belo-Osagie.
