21 minutes with KKB
by Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng
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Podcast episodes
Season 1
She quit banking after 20 years and turned to fish farming - The story of Aquatic Foods CEO
After quitting her over 20-year banking career she turned to fish farming. But the challenges of being an entrepreneur will prove more costly than she anticipated as she'll soon come to realise. Watch Mabel Quashie, CEO of Aquatic Foods share the story of her journey to becoming the owner of a company focused on empowering the youth though the business of healthy living. #21minuteswithkkb #entrepreneur #Aquaticfoods
The Ghanaian scientist on the verge of finding a cure for epilepsy
A conversation on drugs, sex, aphrodisiacs and a Ghanaian neuropharmacologist’s quest to finding a cure for epilepsy. Listen to this episode of 21 minutes with KKB with a Neuropharmacologist, Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Dr Priscilla Kolibea Mante.
How one question led to the creation of Ghana's largest platform championing STEM education
It was a simple question. One as simple as "why is this bird able to perch on an electric cable without being electrocuted?" The aswer to this question in an explanation that followed led to an idea to create a platform that would help promote STEM educatio in Ghana at a time when many paid little attention to it. Years down the line, the baton has passed to Nana Akua Aboagyewaa Ankomah-Asare, the new Managing Director of Primetime Limited who is harnessing the power of social media, an overzealous youth and the desire for bragging rights to amplify STEM education. Listen to my conversation with her in this episode of the business edition of #21minuteswithkkb
The Bekwai-born Ghanaian with the fastest growing indigenous streaming platform in Africa today
A national service opportunity would lead to a job role, and then a lifetime opportunity of many more of such with major corporations in and outside his home country Ghana as the years go by. A desire to however pursue further studies in the United Kingdom will open Louis up to a whole new set of possibilities, including the potential of actualizing his dream of creating a distinct streaming platform for Africans. Listen to Wi-Flix co-founder, Louis Manu share more in this interview with Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on the Business edition of #21minuteswithKKB.
How the pursuit of a scammer birthed a business for US based Ghanaian, African Prodigy
She was a regular 9 to 5 chic with a side hustle like many. Her base was Atlanta, USA and her shito business was booming. So much so, she needed representatives in Europe and elsewhere to help her meet the demand. A satisfying role, many would assume but her ambition was too huge to allow her settle on booming shito sales only so the African Prodigy decided to go into food processing. Months down the line and Cassandra Ntiamoah would invest nearly a USD 100,000 into a venture only to realise that she was being scammed all this while. Her frustration and desire to retrieve her funds led her to the motherland, Ghana, where as fate would have it, she would discover a business opportunity. Listen to Cassandra Ntiamoah (African Prodigy's) full story in this interview with Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on The Business Edition of #21minuteswithKKB