Two agripreneurs clinched top honours in the fifth annual GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition Finals held at the Africa Food Systems Forum Summit 2023.
Generation Africa awarded two grand prizes of US$50,000 to Hasina Andriatsitohaina, founder and manager of Mad’Arom in Madagascar, and Ikenna Nzewi, co-founder and CEO of Releaf Africa in Nigeria.
Four more Impact Award Winners were announced at a separate youth celebration on the final day of the summit, receiving a US$2,500 prize each. Recognising the contributions of all the GoGettaz Finalists, Generation Africa partner USAID dedicated a further US$1,000 each to the remaining finalists.
“This year’s summit theme is ‘Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation.’ Far from being a distant hope, these GoGettaz have demonstrated to everyone at the summit that they are Africa’s Solutions,” said Dr Agnes Kalibata, president of AGRA. “I hope the investors were paying attention, because I can clearly see how some of these businesses have the potential to impact millions of lives across the continent in the next decade.”
