The Future Awards Africa Winners Spotlight: Cynthia Mosunmola Umoru (Business Owner of the Year, 2009)

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Cynthia is an agribusiness entrepreneur who is extremely passionate about food, farming and  the community. Proudly calling herself a farmer, her dream is for Nigeria to attain national food security which can only be achieved through increased education of youths and women within the local communities.

She is a zoology graduate, an alumnus of the Pan African University under the Enterprise Development Center (CEM) and Alum of the U.S Department of States International Visitors Leadership Programme.

Cynthia is the Founder & Chief Implementation Officer of Honeysuckles PTL Ventures a company engaged mostly in food production, processing and distribution. Honeysuckles specializes in various farm products like Chicken (broilers), smoked chicken, eggs, snails, catfish (smoked and live) and vegetables. She is also the Founder/CEO of Farmshoppe, a retail industry launched recently in January 2011. Cynthia is referred to as a young Nigerian Ambassador and a youth advocate who has served as a Youth Consultant to the African Union Commission. She won the Business Owner of the Year prize at the 2009 edition of The Future Awards Africa. Cynthia is a multitalented young woman and a social entrepreneur who was recently announced an Ashoka Fellow in November 2011.

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