ABOUT
Dr. Sangu Delle is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Author.
Sangu is CEO of CarePoint (formerly Africa Health Holdings), a tech forward healthcare system operating across the continent, focused on "building Africa's healthcare future." He is also the Founder and Chairman of Golden Palm Investments Corporation ("GPI"); an investment holding company focused on building world class technology companies in Africa. GPI has backed startups such as Andela, mPharma and Flutterwave and GPI portfolio companies have raised over $1.2 billion in venture financing.
Sangu co-founded Cleanacwa, a nonprofit which worked in underdeveloped communities in Ghana to ensure that water and sanitation, basic human rights, were provided. Cleanacwa operated from 2007 until 2022 and its projects impacted over 200,000 people across 160 communities in Ghana. In 2022, Sangu launched the Sangu Delle Foundation, a grant-making non-profit focused on education, mental health and job creation.
Sangu is a Trustee of the Peddie School, a board member of Ashesi University, a member of the Harvard Medical School Dean's Global Health and Service Advisory Council, Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of Harvard's Center for African Studies, a board member of Ghana International School and a member of Harvard University's Joint Committee on Alumni Affairs and Development. He is a member of the Selection Committee of the Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa. Sangu previously served as an Elected Director on the Board of Harvard's Alumni Association and a member of the Stakeholder Advisory panel at AXA.
Sangu graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honors) in African Studies and Economics from Harvard College, a Doctor of Law from Harvard Law School, a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master's in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University and a PhD in African Studies and Anthropology from the University of Birmingham. He is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Sangu is the author of Making Futures: Young Entrepreneurs in a Dynamic Africa, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize for best business book by an author under age 40.
MAKING FUTURES
Young Entrepreneurs In A Dynamic Africa
Making Futures brings together 17 young entrepreneurs from 14 countries doing incredible work across the continent. Their stories are both inspirational and aspirational; providing a template for readers who might be interested in embarking on their own entrepreneurial journey, and allowing others to see the incredible energy and work that is happening across the continent. There’s the story of David Sengeh, who has worked on combatting malaria and lack of energy in Sierra Leone before turning to custom-made prosthetics, to Farida Bedwei, co-founder of the largest microfinance banking software platform in Ghana.
These are entrepreneurs who are helping to reconfigure the narrative about Africa by simply making things for the masses of their population. They represent what is possible and what can be scaled up in different African contexts, despite the dysfunctionality witnessed across the continent. With such diversity of stories, readers have access to potential business ideas, while learning a little about the history of that country and what it takes to build a business in an emerging economy. These men and women have done it and are doing it!