News & Events

September 2-4, 2011  Moderating at the Harambe Rome Forum September 2-4, 2011 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Italy.

August 1, 2011 –  Afropreneurs in Education; Leveraging technology to provide access to under-served communities – Invited talk at  2011 Graduate Studies Program of Singularity University, NASA Ames Research Park in the heart of Silicon Valley

July 15, 2011 –  Lack of access to finance, biggest problem of entrepreneurs in Africa – Idris Bello  http://www.tribune.com.ng/index.php/features/25115-lack-of-access-to-finance-biggest-problem-of-entrepreneurs

July 12, 2011 –  Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq and Idris Bello (NLI Associates), awarded Cambridge University Entrepreneurship http://nli-global.org/muntaqa-umar-sadiq-and-idris-bello-nli-associates-awarded-cambridge-university-entrepreneurship-angel-prize/

 July 5, 2011 –  HuffPost Greatest Person Of The Day: Idris Bello, ‘Afropreneur,’ Wants Libraries Across Africa http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/05/huffpost-greatest-person-of-day_n_890504.html

 July 5, 2011 –  Huffington Post recognizes NLI Associate, Idris Bello as ‘the Greatest Person of the Day’ http://nli-global.org/idris-bello-nli-associate-named-huffpost-greatest-person-of-the-day-by-the-huffington-post/

June 27,2011  – A Billion Seeds Get Fertilized: The Promise of “Libraries Across Africa http://abeerdesai.com/2011/06/30/a-billion-seeds-get-fertilized-the-promise-of-libraries-across-africa/ http://www.care2.com/causes/a-billion-seeds-get-fertilized-the-promise-of-libraries-across-africa.html

May 28, 2011 –  2011 StartingBloc (New York) elevator pitch on Libraries Across Africa by Idris Ayodeji Bello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8SjqW-4haE

May 16, 2011 –  LAA Wins Dell Technology Award!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKmtM_zruIM&feature=player_embedded

 May 13, 2011 –  LoftyInc’s Bello Bags Rice University’s Highest Award & EMBA  http://hipvestors.blogspot.com/2011/05/loftyincs-bello-bags-rice-universitys.html

 April 17, 2011 –  Idris Bello’s Social Enterprise Pitch-2011 Global Health & Innovation Conference (Yale University, CT)   http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/blogs/idris-bello  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWuUQSAq8Ww

 March 27, 2011 –  Harambe Africa- A poem on a piece of paper – Idris Bello  http://oliviamukam.blogspot.com/2011/04/poem-on-piece-of-paper-hbws-iv-by-idris.html  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwbIA942GfA

 March 26, 2011 –  Libraries Across Africa- Presentation at the Harvard-Tufts Harambe Symposium- Idris Bello (Rice University)

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May 25, 2010 –  Transforming Nigeria, One Future Leader at a Time http://nli-global.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=37