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Benjamin Epton Owusu is the founder and CEO of WovenAfrica, a Ghanaian social enterprise focused on making custom Kente stoles and cloth for institutions across the world. This young man has established two weaving stations in both the Volta and Ashanti region empowering these weaving communities with a livelihood and providing them with a wider market in and outside Ghana to sell their designs. He currently supplies the prestigious John Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University. He has also established Ghana’s first Kente digital platform which will provide Ghanaians within the diaspora access to this cloth.

Age: 27