Magatte Wade on Clubhouse

Bio

All you need to know about me:

I am a Cheetah working to build prosperity and dignity in Africa through the free markets + entrepreneurship

But if you must know more 😉:

I am an entrepreneur, speaker, and business leader with a passion for creating positive change in Africa.

Founder and CEO of SkinIsSkin.com, “the lip balm with a mission,” and dedicated to reducing racial discrimination while creating jobs and prosperity in my home country of Senegal.

Throughout my career, I have created successful high-end retail brands inspired by diverse African traditions.

* a Forbes “20 Youngest Power Women in Africa”

* a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum at Davos

* a TED Global Africa Fellow

* and a "Leading Woman in Wellness” award winner by the Global Wellness Summit.

* Featured on the cover of Forbes Afrique for being the person in Francophone Africa having the greatest positive impact on the future.

My other hats:

• Director of the Atlas Network's Center for African Prosperity.

• Member of the board of Directors of Conscious Capitalism Inc.

• Member of the Advisory Board of the Whole Planet Foundation, of Whole Foods Market.

• Written for The Guardian, HuffingtonPost.com, and Barron’s, and has been profiled by the NYT.

• Spoken at numerous venues including the U.N., The Clinton Global Initiative, the Aspen Institute, TED, Conscious Capitalism, and many dozens of universities including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, MIT, UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, and the Wharton School of Business.

My belief is that the “cheetah generation,” a new cohort of dynamic African entrepreneurs and professionals identified by Ghanian economist George Ayittey, will create local pathways for change that will shape the future of African prosperity.

Perhaps the most unique challenge we face is that the world has come to perceive that Africans themselves are not capable of creating prosperity—and require charity in order to survive. This simply isn’t true. The combination of negative perceptions of Africans, combined with widespread ignorance regarding the need for economic freedom is a toxic combination.



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