General Entry Criteria

Anyone, business, or organisation is qualified to be nominated if they are African, entrepreneur (in the case of an individual) and they have a business, or are a business or an organisation that is registered with the appropriate authority in their country. However, we are very interested in entrepreneurs, businesses, and organisations with stories of breakthrough and positive impacts.

The Entrepreneur Africa reserves the right not to accept a nomination, or to cancel any Award for any reason at any time. We accept no liability for canceling any or all of the Award categories or for anyone’s failure to receive actual notification of any cancellation.

The decisions of The Entrepreneur Africa on all Award categories are final and binding.


Find the categories available for nominations below


2024 Award Categories

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Young Entrepreneur

This Award celebrates the successes recorded by a budding entrepreneur as he or she navigated through the murky waters of the business environment. The ideal winner must have achieved a certain level of business success that is worthy to serve as an inspiration or a model to other businesses across board.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Tech Innovation

No doubt, technology is a major driver of businesses in today’s world. This Award celebrates the innovation in tech that has a viable business model for business needs.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Startups

This category awards one newly emerged business with a viable business venture

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Real Estate Marketing

The real estate sector offers huge potentials for business growth and success and as such, the Realtor of The Year must have demonstrated a strong winning mentality in achieving tremendous sales success.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Real Estate Development

Idea, they say, is king. This Award seeks to celebrate that individual or brand, who through innovation, has redefined the real estate sector in the year under review.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Professional Services

Professional services are specialized services rendered by experts such as accountants, engineers, lawyers, doctors, architects etc. This Award seeks to reward that individual or brand that rendered professional services in an excellent way in the year under review.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Food and Agriculture

Agriculture remains a sector with vast opportunities. The winner of this award will have demonstrated sheer hard work, resilience, and zest in confronting the many obstacles that are peculiar to the food and Agro sector.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Quality

This Award seeks to reward a company whose product or service standards meet global best practices.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Creative Arts

As the name implies, we seek to reward that individual or company whose efforts and contributions to the Creative Arts Industry have been extraordinary and an inspiration to many.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Fashion Business

Africa has a lot to offer when it comes to fashion and design. We are looking for that person or company that celebrates and showcases Africa to the world through his or her creative designs.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Brand Influencing

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Financial Service Innovation

We are looking for that brand who, within the year under review, introduced new, smart and secure ways in the provision of financial services to their clientele.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Outstanding Female Entrepreneur

Women are doing exceedingly well in business and showing the way in entrepreneurship. This Award is in recognition and celebration of the amazing feats achieved by a female entrepreneur in the year under review.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Business Person of The Year

This Award seeks to celebrate that individual who, through his/her ingenuity and entrepreneurial skills, has achieved remarkable business success in the year under review.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Event Management

This category honors the creativity and precision with which the entrepreneur has served in this industry with a focus on quality and outstanding services.

The Entrepreneur Africa Award for Social Impact

Being a leader entails the ability to persuasively inspire people to actions. Do you have or know someone who has a strong social media presence and whose views shape opinions and sometimes disrupt the media space? And who has been able to achieve tremendous business success through the power of social media? Then this Award is for such a person.

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