In a groundbreaking effort to celebrate the contributions of entrepreneurs in Ghana, the African Entrepreneurs Alliance (AEA) has launched the Ghana Entrepreneurship Week Conference with a call on the Ghanaian youth to think entrepreneurial, highlighting its significance to reducing unemployment.

The launch of the Ghana Entrepreneurs Week Conference which took place at the BKQ Foundation Hall in Accra on Saturday, October 5, 2024 aims at celebrating entrepreneurs in diverse ways by bringing business owners to bond together and share knowledge and expertise with the youth.

Speaking at the function, Mrs Eunice Amoakoa Botchway, the Founder of AEA noted that, Ghana Entrepreneurship Week slated for November 23, 2024 at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel forms part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrations, highlighting its significance in applauding entrepreneurs in Ghana for the monumental contributions towards our economic growth.

While admitting that Africa’s greatest challenge was unemployment, Mrs Botchway posited that in Ghana it was estimated only 50 percent of 60,000 graduates got employed within a period of three years. This equates to about 30,000 unemployed graduates.

“In 10 years time, Ghana would produce 300,000 unemployed graduates,” stressed Mrs Botchway.

This according to her formed part of the reasons AEA was seeking to change the narrative where most graduates wait to get employment after school, by encouraging them to change their mindset to become entrepreneurs.

She added that the staggering nature of the statistics demanded that something urgent needed to be done.

With this, the AEA seeks to visit all the regions of Ghana to inculcate the entrepreneurial mindset into the pre-tertiary younger ones, stressing it’s merit in preparing their minds before entering tertiary institutions. The AEA conference is one such step seeking to encourage entrepreneurs to train the youth to take up the challenge of becoming entrepreneurs.

She concluded her remarks by paying glowing tributes to McDan Group of Companies, Star Assurance, Kasapreko Distilleries, Joy Daddy, Happy Man Bitters, Delay Foods, Inculenu, and African World for blazing the entrepreneurship trail in Ghana. “As the founder of the African Entrepreneurs Alliance, I therefore declare that the 2024 Ghana Entrepreneurship Week Conference duly launched”.