Côte d'Ivoire

LiFi-Led: Bringing Light and Internet to rural regions in Côte d’Ivoire with Cédric Doffou

ThomasAugust 23, 2021AfricaX Changemaker Interviews

Meet Cédric Doffou the co-founder of LiFi-Led an Ivorian company bringing light and internet to rural areas in Côte d’Ivoire. In the interview Cédric shares How their products and solutions tackle two challenges of the rural areas at the same time How an experience of his co-founder and mentor Ange Frederick Balma led them to…

How Yaya Kone encourages Ivorians to sort their plastic waste and recycle with Coliba

ThomasJanuary 16, 2021AfricaX Changemaker Interviews

Meet Yaya Kone, the co-founder of Coliba, a startup specialized in collecting and recycling plastic waste in Côte d’Ivoire. Yaya had worked as a teacher in France, when, during a visit at home in Abidjan, he noticed how much waste was going unrecycled and what the negative implications were. So he and his co-founder Genesis…