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In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
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Monday 12th December 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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In this audio podcast version of my weekly Performance Improvement Ideas newsletter, I discuss the subject of money making, with regard to the deficiency of formal conventional schooling systems in giving learners the know-how to do IT.
Among other issues, I highlight the fact that conventional learning institutions in our societies continue to focus excessively on book based learning, so that learners arrive adulthood, and enter society, post schooling with little or no understanding of money and how to make it.
Unfortunately, they inevitably discover, to their shock and dismay, that the world – more or less – revolves around money i.e. Money – as they say – makes the world go round.
No matter the academic credentials you acquire via schooling, if you lack money in enough volumes, to meet your needs (as an adult, post-schooling) so that you do not have to depend on others to “survive”, chances are good that you will NOT enjoy their respect – especially in Nigeria (ignore what they SAY & pay close attention, instead, to what they DO).
People will roll their eyes heaven wards when you speak; they will accuse you of “speaking too much English” or “blowing grammer”, when you voice opinion on issues. You will be used as the butt end of jokes to your face, and often behind your back. Money has a way of popping up in all areas of human life – so NOT having it, can make you look and feel bad quite often.
I say ALL this based on my painful personal experiences – which I’ve described in MANY of my past articles on this blog. A good example is this PDF report (in which I describe my experiences as a struggling startup of being the “Bambiala” of the Solagbade family) and this article, in which I noted that I used to steal N100 naira from the purse of my kids’ mother to purchase browsing time in the cybercafe, so as to do more marketing!
I did all that because I did not know how to make money in those early years. My brilliant academic abilities did NOT help me!
It took great effort and pain, to learn via trial and error, till I became competent. Today I make money without even needing to meet clients/buyers in person.
I therefore argue that parents who want the best for their kids need to ADD a vocational skills acquisition dimension to the “education” of their kids. Formal schooling on its own simply will NOT do anymore in today’s world.
This is why we have armies of unemployed certificate carrying graduates walking jobless on the streets. You can make YOUR child’s story different. I say this based on what I’m doing for my kids. Learn more from the audio – and follow the instructions at the end to find out how I can help you design a programme for your child.
Click here to listen to/download the full audio
1. Your Child Needs Strength of Character to Successfully Resist Corruption
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
New posts from last week*
Monday:
[Wednesday]:
[Thursday]:
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.
Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.
But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.
If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.
Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))
Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix
(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)
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Intelligent creation of new and useful digital marketing content is the key to achieving – and sustaining – name and brand recognition at low to zero cost.
Look around the web, and you’ll see that those businesses that are able to capture your attention, for decent periods of time – especially the ones whose websites you find yourself going back to, often have a routine of churning out new content designed to appeal to their desired target audience.
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Monday 13th November 2017
NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.
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Intelligent creation of new and useful digital marketing content is the key to achieving – and sustaining – name and brand recognition at low to zero cost.
Look around the web, and you’ll see that those businesses that are able to capture your attention, for decent periods of time – especially the ones whose websites you find yourself going back to, often have a routine of churning out new content designed to appeal to their desired target audience.
Those that get the best results typically employ a combination of methods – including creation of unique series of articles, videos, audios, PDF reports, info-graphics and others.
Every business will however need to experiment quite a bit to find out what works best for its brand. Very rarely will it be possible to arrive at a one size fits all kind of web marketing campaign. Instead, the business owner and/or those responsible for the web marketing implementation may most likely have to do lots of testing to identify what combination of methods gives the best results.
Not only will that process take time, but it will also require considerable investment of effort in thinking up new ideas, implementing and reviewing them.
When you are an expert art your core business, the required investment of time, effort and resources to make the above happen, may however not be something you find yourself able to commit to.
Much as most business owners would love to do it, I’ve seen many of them struggle to combine it with carrying out web marketing content creation and propagation to boost their business marketing reach and impact – the way it needs to be done, for best results to happen.
This is why there is a growing demand for intelligent, value adding, web marketing content creation support services, delivered via a ghostwriting arrangement – like the one I’ve delivered to clients for years.
Since 2004, I have worked with experts in a wide range of industries (consulting, IT, real estate, health and fitness, hotels, bars/restaurants, hospitals, law, agriculture, education etc) to create and propagate web marketing content for their businesses.
Little wonder that many gladly remain in my network and most buy into other solutions I up sell to them over time.
Today, I have several who started out years ago by purchasing my Excel-VB software, but have since moved on to having me deliver other solutions like ghostwriting books, developing web marketing systems etc.
But for me, by far the most exciting part of the work I do as a Location Independent Multipreneur is the aspect that involves using my creative writing skills to support clients in a variety of ways – especially with regard to the use of PC/Internet Technology.
Below is an example of the ways I use my passion – and unique gift – for creative response generating writing – to help clients cost-effectively achieve improved marketing results
If you want take the work out of your business marketing, while boosting your reach and impact, the following custom solutions will interest you
I now offer a standalone digital marketing content creation service.
I will prepare and deliver the following digital marketing resources to paying clients at the indicated rates:
1. Biz Marketing Articles [750 – 1,000 words/unit]
Order 12 minimum @ N3k per unit
2. Educational Commercial (PDF) @ N50k per unit
Order 12 minimum @ N25k per unit
3. Biz Marketing Video Trailers @ N50k per unit
Order 12 minimum @ N15k per unit
1. Click here to learn more about this app – watch demo videos etc
2. Click here to watch a 4 part video in which I demonstrate how to use this app to formulate rations using real life data sent to me by an Algerian PhD student.
Click here to download a detailed PDF user guide and watch 15 screen shot user guide tutorials of the Monthly Poultry Farm Manager that I now offer Farm CEOs.
New posts from last week*
Monday:
[Wednesday]:
[Thursday]:
Tayo K. Solagbade*
Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur
*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition
Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)
Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.
Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/ web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).
Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.
He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.
In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.
On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.
His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).
In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.
In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.
Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).
When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.
You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.
Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.
On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.
Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.
But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts he’s published.
If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.
Click “Tayo, What Happened to SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))
Succeed by Emerging from Adversity Like a Phoenix
(TayoSolagbade.com launches extra Hosting plan with FREE Web Marketing!)
A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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If you’re interested in Commercial Snail Farming (like I am – due to my daughter’s passion for it – and the interest of some of my Farm CEO clients), then you’ll want to read this:
This amazing Moringa plant continues to prove itself to be a true all-purpose plant.
This time around, it’s showing researchers looking for more cost-effective ways to grow commercially reared snails, that it can generate potentially massive savings in terms of feeding costs, even as it delivers satisfactory nutrients supply to the micro livestock fed with it.
No wonder it’s called the MIRACLE TREE!
The foregoing is the conclusion reached by a team at the famous Songhai Integrated (100% recycled) Farming Centre based on Porto Novo, in a study they conducted.
Below, I share a preview of their report, with clickable links to read it in full on the Songhai website:
SNAIL FARMING: MORINGA FOR A BETTER GROWTH OF SNAILS
The residues of Moringa leaf extract can well replace the feed used in feeding snails. This is the conclusion reached from an experiment conducted by a Songhai team, seeking the best feed for a better growth of these mollusks.
Snails need a diet rich in protein for growth. Moringa is known for its medicinal properties and for its richness in protein. Fresh moringa leaves contain as much protein as an egg; dry moringa leaves contain four times more.
Read full report…click below
Learn How YOU Can Enjoy a WIN-WIN Relationship, With Me, That Helps You Succeed – in this short audio message in which I announce revised guidelines for provision of/access to some solutions I offer.
The revised guidelines discussed in this audio notification take effect from Monday, the 9th of October 2017.
The first one mentioned about my PROMO offers is the most important, but I strongly advise that if you plan to work with me, you download and listen to the full audio (click link at bottom of this post) to know what the other 2 are.
This is because they define how I will work from now onwards, to ensure I can serve ALL my clients and followers effectively and efficiently in a WIN-WIN relationship that ensures I stay profitable even as I help them achieve their goals.
Hi there, this is Tayo Solagbade and it’s about 4.54a.m. I’m recording this special update just to announce some slight modifications to the way I’ll be providing my solutions to everybody in my network.
Now please note that what I’m about to say here applies to you whether you’re already a client or whether you’re just a subscriber in my network, or maybe you’re just on my contacts list and I sent it to you.
But in the email I would have spelt out the same terms I’m about to describe in this audio, and it’s just designed to let everybody be on the same page.
Starting from Monday, the 9th of October 2017, I will be launching a new system for sending out offers to people in my network. And this will be a blanket system. In other words I will NOT be making special concessions to ANY particular groups of people anymore.
Instead I’m going to just be giving a blanket system of offers to make what I used to call “Crazy Promos”…there will no longer be called “crazy promos.
Instead I’m going to just have promos, because like I said I’ve tested all kinds of things this year, and what I’ve learned is that at the end of the day, the most important thing is that you should make your offers with integrity, but at the same time make them to have as much of a human face as possible.
Incidentally, it was some of you who told me this – who requested for this and asked, “Oh why can’t you make it a bit longer. These are short” and all of that. And what I found out over the years, from experts that I studied in developing my model, is that it’s always a smart thing to test. If people tell you they want “this”, TEST it! Don’t just be (like some clients used to tell me I was…lol) “rigid”.
So I said, OK – they say I’m rigid, let me see – just how flexible can I be, that they will be able to take it up…
So, I tried being flexible, and I noticed that the more flexible I tried to be, not everybody would respond to the effort being made to be flexible.
Some people still, there was always something!
So I said OK, the African and Nigerian environment is peculiar. People have challenges they are facing that are not normal. Because they are not like Americans, where everybody has their credit cards and you can just be charging their credit cards, every month, like some of my Oyinbo mentors that I’ve studied.
Some people are dealing with price changes of maize every week. So when they are talking about subscribing to your offer – when they say YES last week, by this week, they’ll say “Ol boy that YES don turn to MAYBE” lol!
And so I said to myself, that I have to find out something. that will be convenient for everybody and that would be FAIR! But I realized in the process of trying to do that, testing all kinds of approaches, practically with each person, especially those people who were already my clients and I felt I knew them and that it would be unfair not to give the guy a chance. I found out that there could be a varying degree of commitment even after you’d made these modifications.
So, eventually what I’ve come to is the conclusion that a person who really wants something (and that’s something I’ve actually always known), if he wants something badly enough, he’ll find away to get it.
All you have to do it to be fair in how you make the offer. Once you’ve done that, then your own part is played and it’s left to the person to decide.
And so, long story short, what I’m announcing to all of you is:
Starting Monday (9th October 2017), there will not be any crazy promos. They will just be FLASH PROMOS – which are promos that are (tightly) time limited.
So, the time limit can be in 3 forms.
The first form or first dealing will be 24 hours
That price will be crazy but I will not call it a crazy promo.
It’s just going to be at a flash promo price. You take it up in 24hours you get that price. You go beyond 24 hours, you’re going to have to deal with DOUBLE that price which will be applicable for 24 hours.
Then after that it goes back to (for instance if the thing was supposed to be ) N100k and I gave it to you at N5k, then you would actually have to pay N10k if you missed the 24 hour deadline, and then after the 48 hour deadline, you would have to pay the N100k…or comot eye lol!
Now, it’s important to note, that what I’m talking about here, there are no exceptions to it.
It does not matter if you’re a member of my Farm Business Ideas club or Web Marketing for CEOs club or whether you’re just a subscriber or you’re a member of my Inner Circle. It won’t matter.
(Not) even if you’re a member of Club Zero – because (unlike how I initially started it) I have revised the terms of Club Zero to be SPECIFICALLY for farm business owners.
The reason is this:
I would say that about 80% of my clients are Farm CEOs!
So those are the people that helped my brand to be what it is today, and it is for those people that I offer Club Zero – PRIMARILY.
It took me time, but I eventually decided that THAT was how I wanted it to be.
So anything outside Farm Business Support Solutions would NOT be a Club Zero thing. Therefore you won’t be able to get it at a zero price.
NB: The audio continues to the 2 other updates that you need to be aware of – but I do NOT offer a text transcript version.
Instead, like I noted in the preamble for this post, I strongly advise that if you plan to work with me, you download and listen to the full audio (click here NOW) to know what the other 2 are.
Location Independent Performance Improvement Specialist & Multipreneur
Web: http://www.tayosolagbade.com
This menu driven Payments Summary Auto Reporting interface (see screenshot below) in my Automated Cash Book/Bank Reconciliation App (shown below) taps data it sums into totals from the Cash Book
Take note of the syntax and the way range names are used in the formula.
As with everything else practical, the best way to help you understand SumProduct formulas is to show them in use. So the video tutorial I’ll send out next will do that.
For this week, I’ll leave you with a few words about Sum Product formulas and how I first discovered them…
Most of those who have followed my work on Excel-VB Solutions Development will know that I have repeatedly mentioned one expert – Pierre LeClerc as being my role model, mentor and inspiration.
LeClerc, is much older than I am and boasts decades of custom spreadsheet programming and database solutions development experience.
His ability to communicate complex logic in simple, easy to understand language, made it easy for me to LEARN smart techniques from him, about how to get maximum results with minimal efforts, by making intelligent use of MS Excel and related applications.
He also explained that the two compound formulas mentioned are so powerful that one might not even need to lean visual basic coding proper, in order to achieve significant improvement in the performance and ease of maintenance of Excel workbooks on a sustainable basis.
Those words really appealed to me, because as a performance improvement specialist, my focus had always been to develop smart time, effort and cost-saving ways to use PC and Internet technology to boost output in the workplace.
So, I began studying and using both tools, and ultimately became VERY proficient in their use. What’s more, I discovered that he was right, that knowing how to use them alone enabled me achieve seemingly magical outcomes/results in helping clients QUICKLY and EASILY generate useful reports for decision making, by “extracting, organising, analysing and presenting data”!
But I digress. Let me get back to introducing SUMPRODUCT formulas to those of you who may not be familiar with them, and their use.
SUMPRODUCT FORMULAS, as described by LeClerc, typically come in useful, when (and I quote him below):
“…you need a column (quantity or amount) based on the value of one or more criteria in other columns (date, account, product, city, department, country, sales rep., etc). The SUMPRODUCT formula does that very elegantly. The SUMPRODUCT formula is a “multi criteria conditional sum”. I have been using these formulas now for 5 years and I find new applications all the time…”they are in fact queries in a cell”
Next week, I’ll illustrate the power of SUMPRODUCT formulas in the step-by-step video I will email to all members of the Excel Heaven Visual Basic Club.
I’m publishing the link to the Quora.com page where very interesting responses (including true stories) were posted in response to this question, on this blog…just in case any of you wins the lottery. Hopefully, what you learn will help you make more intelligent use of the windfall, than most of the winners mentioned on that page did 
This week’s issue of The Farm CEO features a funding opportunity for African business owners and a report about how TechnoServe’s STRYDE program is helping more young Africans connect with agriculture.
African entrepreneurs have the opportunity to receive funding for their business ideas by entering one of the AECF’s competitions.
What is the AECF?
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) is a US$100m private sector fund, backed by some of the biggest names in development finance and hosted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Our aim is to encourage private sector companies to compete for investment support for their new and innovative business ideas.
The AECF is a competition, open only to for-profit private companies which are starting, or intend to start, new ventures in specific fields. Companies are invited to submit proposals outlining their business idea or concept for funding.
Which ideas does the AECF support?
A young Kenyan farming entrepreneur demonstrates why youth are critical to transforming agriculture and ensuring food security in Africa.
Nickson Muthuri, 24, is having a banner year.
Today, he is graduating from Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya, with a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology.
Last week, Nickson traveled to the United States for the first time, speaking about youth in African agriculture at events with Harvard University’s PAPSAC Food Policy Group, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
In September, Nickson beat out more than 800 young entrepreneurs from 18 countries to win first prize in the 2014 Agribiz4Africa competition. Sponsored by Syngenta and Enactus Kenya, Agribiz4Africa aims to raise awareness about careers in agriculture among Africa’s youth while promoting new business opportunities in crop value chains. Nickson’s business idea for cassava value addition won $10,000 in startup capital.
