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Entrepreneurship starts in the mind
before it shows in the market.
In this module, you’ll meet African founders who turned self-belief and courage into action.
They share how rediscovering personal value beyond job titles — and acting before certainty — became the spark for their entrepreneurial journey.
Learn to see your own skills as business assets, build confidence, and take your first small step, even when you don’t feel ready.
By the end of this module, you will:
Identify your transferable skills
Write your personal “why”
Plan one small action that moves you forward
Connect mindset to early money-making possibilities
Before You Begin
Before You Begin
Take a moment to understand where you are starting from.
This course is built to help you grow your entrepreneurial mindset step by step. To track that growth, please complete the Pre-Course Impact Evaluation Questionnaire before you start the first Module.
It’s a short, honest self-check that takes just a few minutes.
Your answers will help you:
understand your current confidence and mindset
identify your strengths and blind spots
set a baseline you can compare later with your post-course results
Your responses also help us improve the Learning Hub and design better support for students and founders across Africa.
There are no right or wrong answers. Just be real.
🎧 Lesson 1 — Solving Problems You Understand
🎧 Lesson 1 — Solving Problems You Understand
Speaker: Nankhonde Kasonde van den Broek
Nankhonde Kasonde van den Broek shares how leaving a secure UN career helped her rediscover her own value. She shows that entrepreneurship begins with self-awareness — seeing the skills and experiences you already have as the building blocks of opportunity.
Lesson Outcomes:
Recognize your transferable skills.
Re-frame them as entrepreneurial assets.
Add-on: Think: “Who might pay for or benefit from these skills?”
🎧 Lesson 2 — Believe Before You Build
🎧 Lesson 2 — Believe Before You Build
Speaker: Biola Alabi
Nigerian investor and media executive Biola Alabi reminds us that conviction comes before capital — and that taking ownership of risk is part of belief. She shares how backing her own ideas led from employment to entrepreneurship.
Lesson Outcomes:
Clarify your personal mission.
Express your “Founder Belief Statement.”
Add-on: Identify one group that would value or pay for what you stand for.
🎧 Lesson 3 — Courage to Start in the Unknown
🎧 Lesson 3 — Courage to Start in the Unknown
Speaker: Afshon Wallace
Afshon Wallace, founder and CEO of AfriDelivery, describes what it takes to build something that doesn’t yet exist. With no industry, no funding, and little support, he relied on courage and mindset to keep moving forward — proving that uncertainty is where growth begins.
Lesson Outcomes:
Accept uncertainty as part of building.
Identify one step you can take without full resources.
Add-on: Estimate your first possible $100 — who could it come from and for what?
End-of-Module Activity
— Entrepreneurial Identity Canvas
End-of-Module Activity
— Entrepreneurial Identity Canvas
Combine all three worksheets into one page.
Draw arrows showing how your skills (Nankhonde), belief (Biola), and courage (Afshon) connect to form your entrepreneurial identity.
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