Oumou Tall Salamah, an outstanding entrepreneur
Possible but difficult to believe the Senegalese Oumou Tall Salamah, Industrial. CEO Icotaf, she straightened the fabric production unit of 250 employees, building its own funds, accumulated from the time she was shopping. A real challenge. "Nobody gave me a gift," she recalls. The bankers advised me to stay in business. They told me:''Do not take unnecessary risks.''It was ignoring the mainspring of the militant African dignity: "I have two ambitions," she said. Proving that women can perform as well as men. And demonstrate that Africans are not, as would the cliché, incompetent. "This was achieved in two years: saving Icotaf, this noble idealist succeeded where businessmen Senegalese, French, Lebanese had failed before it.
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