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Number 41 on the 2024 list
Fatima El Khou is a founder and head of research and innovation from Morocco, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for winning a US$50,000 GoGettaz grand prize for Jafife's solar-dried foods.
Fatima El Khou won one of the two US$50,000 grand prizes of the 2024 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, announced at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali in September 2024. She founded Jafife, which uses digitalised solar dryers to turn crops and seafood into long-lasting dried foods and natural colourings, using renewable energy to keep their nutrition and quality. She was picked from 12 finalists across the continent.