Top 5 African countries with the highest percentage of women entrepreneurs

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Nigeria

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The West African country has 17.8 per cent of its businesses being owned by women, with cultural perceptions of women entrepreneurs being positive. Generally, the emphasis has been on small-scale and subsistence entrepreneurship for women but this is gradually changing as women are entering into daring fields in entrepreneurship such as Bilikiss Adebiyi, founder of a Lagos-based company which mainly focuses on recycling waste and cleaning up neighbourhoods through a recycling program and Yasmin Belo-Osagie, the co-founder of She Leads Africa (SLA), a Nigeria-based social enterprise that equips female entrepreneurs in Africa with the requisite financing, knowledge and network to build strong businesses.