Cameroonian wins Global Competition for Entrepreneurs

30-year-old Bongajum Lesley Ndzi, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bonga Juice, has won the Global competition for Entrepreneurs emerging as the lone winner of four from Africa.

Bongajum Lesley, an entrepreneur by practice though a graduate of Biochemistry from the University of Buea was among the 18 lucky winners selected worldwide as the winners of the 2017 NexGen in Franchising Global Competition.

Raising the flag of Cameroon as the after emerging as its sole winner, the CEO of Bonga Juice, a restaurant and fast food chain with headquarters in Buea offers premium fresh fruits juices/smoothies, salads and fresh healthy food. His vision, take the brand throughout Africa thus sharing in the Bonga experience. An opportunity which he says is now more than ever a reality thanks to him emerging victorious and thus inscribing his name on the international franchising organisation.

The social entrepreneur who has being running his business for over five years now told this reporter in Buea that he was pushed into the business because it did not only provide an opportunity for him to earn a living but to put some money in the hands of local farmers, to create jobs for the youths as he currently employs dozens of them and equally to provide a healthy option for denizens of the towns he is based in.

Currently present in two cosmopolitan towns of Cameroon; Buea and Douala, Bonga juice made up youthful and dynamic team hold tight to their commitment to uses only fresh foods and vegetables produced locally so as to empower local farmers in Cameroon.

 About the NexGen in Franchise

The NexGen in Franchising Global Competition is an annual convention that culminates a year-long campaign in which more than 400 young entrepreneurs submit their franchise business plans for a chance to be among the top 18 winners.

With a cash prize valued at some 6.000US Dollars (not cash), selected winners are guaranteed a passed into the international franchise organisation (currently having more than 40.000 members), an opportunity to attend the international franchise annual convention which took place this year in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, USA, mentorship and follow-up be already established organisation free of charge for two years among others.

Open to entrepreneurs’ ages 21-35, the NexGen in Franchising Global Competition is a worldwide program that engages young entrepreneurs seeking careers and business opportunities in the franchising industry.