Author: Michele Marius

ICTP 367: Becoming an African tech ecosystem builder for fashion and sustainability, with Pinaman Owusu-Banahene of ADJOAA

ICTP 367: Becoming an African tech ecosystem builder for fashion and sustainability, with Pinaman Owusu-Banahene of ADJOAA

Posted by | 3 Sep 2025 |

We revisit a conversation we had in 2023 with Pinaman Owusu-Banahane, the Founder and CEO of ADJOAA, a curated multi-brand online marketplace specialising in premium and sustainable fashion and lifestyle products made by African designers and Black-owned businesses. Pinaman shares her journey as a young Ghanaian woman who emigrated but found her way back home again, determined to establish a tech business that would uplift fashion designers and artisans across the Continent to improve their livelihood and promote the use of sustainable practices. During our conversation, Pinaman answers questions on, among other things: why she launched ADJOAA and the problem it is trying to solve; the entrepreneurial and start-up space in Ghana; the successes ADJOAA has been able to realise to date; and the challenges of creating an online marketplace that connects Africa to the World

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ICTP 366: UWI Five Islands AI Conference recap, with Dr Curtis Charles

ICTP 366: UWI Five Islands AI Conference recap, with Dr Curtis Charles

Posted by | 27 Aug 2025 |

The recently concluded UWI Five Islands AI Research Conference has become the leading AI event in the Caribbean region. We are once again joined by Dr Curtis Charles, one of the main drivers of the event, for a recap in which he shares, among other things: his overall thoughts on the conference; valuable learnings or takeaways from the event; possible reasons female attendance far exceeded males; and on a separate note, why he has been calling on the region to “creolise AI”.

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