Keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, impact investment and African innovation
Business leaders, investors, policymakers, development agencies, startup ecosystems, corporate innovation teams and global forums focused on emerging markets
Sangu Delle is a globally recognised entrepreneur, investor, author and humanitarian whose work blends commercial acumen with deep social commitment. As the Founder and CEO of Golden Palm Investments (GPI), he leads an investment holding and advisory firm dedicated to building world class companies across Africa. GPI focuses on high growth sectors and backs early stage ventures with the potential to generate significant social impact, create employment and shift industries forward. Among its portfolio are notable successes such as SOLO Mobile in Nigeria, mPharma in Ghana and Stawi Foods in Kenya, each demonstrating the power of investing in African innovation.
Sangu is also the co founder of cleanacwa, a non profit organisation working to ensure that clean water and sanitation—fundamental human rights—are accessible in underserved Ghanaian communities. His advocacy for public health, infrastructure equity and sustainable development has earned him recognition as both a Soros Fellow and a TEDGlobal Fellow.
A thought leader on the future of African entrepreneurship, Sangu speaks around the world on the intersection of business, purpose and transformation.
Sangu Delle is an Entrepreneur, Author, Clean Water Activist, Soros Fellow and TEDGlobal Fellow.
He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Golden Palm Investments (GPI); an investment holding and advisory company focused on building world class companies in Africa.
GPI operates companies in high growth industries and funds promising start-ups that can have social impact and can generate jobs.
GPI has backed start-ups such as SOLO Mobile in Nigeria, mPharma in Ghana and Stawi Foods in Kenya.
Sangu Delle – Entrepreneur Speaker is the co-founder of cleanacwa, which is a non-profit working in underdeveloped communities in Ghana to ensure that water and sanitation, basic human rights, are provided.
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In this 15 minute TEDxOxford keynote, entrepreneur and impact investor Sangu Delle examines whether true economic freedom in Africa can be achieved without gender equality. Drawing on a decade of investing across the continent and three years of travelling through 43 African countries, he reflects on conversations with over 600 entrepreneurs whose stories shape his upcoming book on young African innovators.
Sangu describes growing up in Accra and his early fascination with The Economist magazine. He recalls the 2000 cover labelling Africa “The Hopeless Continent,” followed by a striking reversal eleven years later with the headline “Africa Rising.” Despite strong economic growth, he argues that Africa lacks genuine economic freedom. Inequality remains high, and prosperity is neither broad based nor inclusive. For Sangu, economic freedom means an economy owned and shaped by Africans, one that generates jobs for young people, distributes opportunity fairly and rises above the constraints of tribe, politics or gender.
Across his interviews, he found that the barriers facing women entrepreneurs are consistent: restrictive social expectations, family responsibilities, limited access to networks and technology, gaps between policy and implementation, and a systemic lack of access to finance. He illustrates this through the story of Mina Evans, a successful Ghanaian designer denied expansion capital unless she provided land as collateral, and confronted with exploitative interest rates as high as 120 percent.
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