Nkem Okocha

Nkem Okocha is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and activist who founded Mamamoni,[1] a FinTech social enterprise that empowers[buzzword] poor rural and urban slum women with free vocational skills and mobile loans.

[2][3] She is the 2016 winner of the LEAP Africa Social Innovators Programme (SIP) by Union Bank of Nigeria.

She started her tertiary education at Auchi Polytechnic and later proceeded to Lagos State University where she earned a bachelor's degree in banking and finance[5][6] and received a certificate in entrepreneurship from the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme.

[8] Inspired by her widowed mum's struggle to feed and educate the family, she founded Mamamoni,[9][10] a social enterprise that is addressing community transformation by empowering women to carry on small businesses.

She went further to become the managing director at Novine Koncept Ventures[14] before starting Mamamoni.