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A FORMER Marist Brothers Nyanga student, Farai Munjoma, made it into the last 12 of young entrepreneurs of the African Leadership Academy Anzisha Prize. Although he did not win the overall prize, Munjoma, took home $2 500, as a finalist. The Anzisha Prize is an initiative by the African Leadership Academy and the MasterCard foundation. It aims to recognise efforts made by young Africa entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities.
Munjoma was selected from a pool of 500 applicants and got short listed to the last 12 on the continent. “I am the chief executive officer and co-founder of Shasha i-Seminar which is Zimbabwe’s first student driven educational platform. “I am 19 years old of age and was doing my Advanced level studies at Marist Brothers Nyanga.
“We developed this service with the help of our consultancy outfit IDEAZIM (Pvt). African students are faced with many barriers to information and through this platform www.shashaiseminar.com students across the nation will have access to notes, exam papers and answers, seminar information and career guidance. By taking advantage of the internet, Shasha aims to overcome the geographical, time and financial barriers,” he said.
At the competition, the 12 finalists pitched their ideas to a pool of judges drawn from across the continent. Chris Kwekowe from Nigeria won the grand prize and walked away with $25 000, followed by first runner up Fabrice Alomo from Cameroon who won $15 000 and Mabel Suglo from Ghana who won $12 500.
Every finalist walked home with $2500. Munjoma said he will invest his prize money into the project. “However, I shall invest the money in the project and see it grow. My dream is to migrate to cloud services and for this dream to be realisable we are still short of another $2 500. My vision and hope is to see an Africa that is free from poverty and one which has empowered youths who are able to drive our economy,” he said.
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