Heroines Africaines Podcast Returns in 2025 with Its Second Episode, Featuring Exceptional Entrepreneurs Aminatou Diallo and Leila Ben Baraiek
The Heroines Africaines podcast is back in 2025 with its second episode, hosted by Sahar Mechri, Executive Director of Managers Magazine. This podcast aims to empower and connect female entrepreneurs in Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystem. In this episode, two exceptional entrepreneurs, Aminatou Diallo and Leila Ben Baraiek, share their journeys and commitment to transforming Africa.
After 15 years in the banking sector, Aminatou Diallo founded the Women Business Group in 2020, an organization dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs. As President of the NGO Women for Education, Health, and Family Environment and Secretary-General of the African Women Entrepreneurs Network (SLEKAf), she advocates for greater economic inclusion of female entrepreneurs in Mauritania. "Female entrepreneurs are underrepresented in the business world and lack access to financing. It is essential to give them the means to succeed," she affirms. To achieve this, she has set up a credit union and a digital platform facilitating the marketing of products from female entrepreneurs. Through training in management and financial education, she provides them with the necessary tools to assert themselves in the economic world.
At the helm of SLPI, a company she founded in 2010 and specialized in producing industrial equipment for agriculture, cosmetics, and chemistry, Leila Ben Baraiek is also the founder of Meva Perfect laboratories, which specialize in manufacturing feed supplements for poultry. Very active in promoting entrepreneurship, she chairs the Chamber of Industrialists of TABC in Sfax and holds the first vice-presidency of the International Forum of Dynamic Entrepreneurs.
Convinced that innovation and perseverance are essential to success, she emphasizes: "Think big, work hard, never give up." Through her initiatives, she designs industrial machines adapted to the needs of female entrepreneurs and leads projects to valorize local resources, transforming these riches into accessible economic opportunities for female entrepreneurs.
Aminatou Diallo and Leila Ben Baraiek embody a new generation of entrepreneurs who are breaking the mold and paving the way for a more inclusive future. Their message is clear: create value and valorize Africa's riches.
Discover their journey in this new episode of the Heroines Africaines podcast.
