Ocloo, Esther Afua

Ocloo, Esther Afua
▪ 2003

      Ghanaian entrepreneur (b. April 18, 1919, Peki-Dzake, Gold Coast (now in Ghana)—d. Feb. 8, 2002, Accra, Ghana), as cofounder (1979) and head of Women's World Banking, pioneered the practice of microlending, providing tiny loans (often as little as $50) to small home-based businesses, usually those run by women in less-developed countries. Ocloo began as a street vendor of homemade orange marmalade and gradually expanded her business to form Nkulenu Industries. She studied in Accra and later went to the U.K. to study agriculture, food technology, and useful handicrafts. On her return to Ghana, she used this training and profits from her company to provide other women with money- and business-management skills. In 1990 Ocloo was corecipient (with Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria) of the $100,000 Africa Prize.

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