Winifred Selby
Winifred Selby
Overview
Winifred is the Founder and CEO of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative. A recent graduate of the Joy Standard College, she launched her organisation in 2010, at the age of 15. She then followed with Afrocentric Bamboo Limited (the profit arm) in 2013. Her company manufactures and markets bicycles made from bamboo, using the bamboo fibre material (often taken for granted in Ghana) in a smart way by adding value to it. The bicycles are sold locally for $100-$150, and internationally for about $250, as the materials used for foreign markets need to be compatible with all types of weather. Winifred was a finalist at the 2014 Cartier Women’s Initiative Award. If she has already achieved all of this at age 20, we are eager to see what she will deliver next!
