Celeste Vogel

Celeste Tchetgen Vogel is a Ghanaian-Cameroonian lawyer, entrepreneur and business executive. She is the co-founder and chief executive officer of eWAKA Mobility, an electric mobility company operating in Africa. She has also co-founded the Professional Women of African Heritage (PROWAH), an organisation supporting professional women of African heritage. Quotes “Building eWAKA is a very personal story to me. It’s not only about being part of the solution. I spent most of my life in Europe and in the United States, and the building in eWAKA for me is being part of the solution, but also paying it forward. When we started, we really started on a mission to introduce ebikes to the continent. But we quickly saw that the mission was greater than that, and we decided to focus on last mile logistics inefficiencies on the continent.” VUKA Group “Our vision for emobility on the continent is quite clear, the fact that two-wheelers have overtaken the transportation space in most African urban centres is already a sign that it is needed because of not only traffic, but also because of the increasing urban population. So for us, we believe that introducing state-of-the-art durable two-wheelers that are electric is not only about the two-wheelers themselves, but it’s also about a clean mode of transport and a mode of transport that can actually replace the use case that the motorcycles have made prevalent.” VUKA Group “Women are key drivers of change in any sector. And I think for Africa, this energy transition is absolutely of primordial importance. And women are usually at the centre of it, because you have access to energy in households that impacts women and children more. In the emobility space, there’s a huge focus on buses and on trains. But the reality is that half of the backbone of our industry is really the 50% of the population that is women.” VUKA Group “eWAKA’s unique value add proposition is the completeness of the ecosystem we offer in the space of last-mile transportation. As understanding localized constraints and variables are key to successfully deploying micro-mobility models and solutions, eWAKA conducted several pilot projects with target customer segments to further develop our product line.” APO Group “We are extremely pleased to have officially launched eWAKA as there is tremendous growth potential in providing Kenya and the region with increased access to electric vehicle options. eWAKA’s planned services will address frustrating and disruptive mobility experiences by offering a sustainable solution that will increase connectivity, improve efficiencies and offer safe, environmentally-friendly transportation.” AJOT “Mobility should open doors, not close them. When a rider can own a clean vehicle and earn a living with it, a whole family moves forward, and the city breathes a little easier. That is the future eWAKA is building, one electric mile at a time.” APO Group External links Category:Living people Category:Ghanaian lawyers Category:Ghanaian businesspeople Category:Cameroonian businesspeople Category:Women business executives Category:Women entrepreneurs Category:Environmentalists