Melaketsehaye Messele Kebede

Melaketsehaye Messele Kebede is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has founded and run an advertising agency called Botalab for the past 10 years in Ethiopia. Besew, a peer-to-peer courier platform with last mile delivery solutions, is one of his latest startups. Upon returning from the Mandela Washington Fellowship, Melaketsehaye intends to leverage his training to continue working on Besew. Melaketsehaye Messele Kebede also hopes to explore ideas that are grounded in age-old African institutions and value systems but need a digital interpretation to stay relevant in an increasingly urbanized continent.