Harambe Endeavor Executive Board from left,  Vice President & Co-Founder, Prince Soko, President & Co-Founder Okendo Lewis Gayle, Investmentt Director, Taf Mbanga.

 The Unlikely Story Of Harambe Endeavor       A Dream and a Piece of Paper

 The Harambe Endeavor is an initiative conceived by two students from Southern New Hampshire University, Okendo Lewis-Gayle and Prince Soko. Two students who chose to use their skills, connections and business acumen to pursue and secure the prosperous future of Sub-Saharan Africa.

What begun as "nothing but a dream on a piece of paper", has now become the most valuable network of African professionals with members and partners in Africa, America and increasingly Europe. 

Okendo and Prince have since been joined by a growing number of visionary students and young African professionals who share their passion for the continent and currently form the Harambe Endeavor Alliance.

On April 19th, 2008, Harambe Endeavor and some  prominent supporters gathered at the historic Mount Washington Hotel to launch Bretton Woods' newest organization and reveal its strategic plan to lead African development through a value sharing system of partnerships.

The students signed the Harambe Bretton Woods Declaration in the Gold Room of the hotel, where the Bretton Woods Agreements establishing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, were signed in 1944.

Harambe Endeavor members declared their intention to "work together as one to unleash the potential of Africa's people, pursue the social, political and economic development of our continent and fulfill the dream of our generation."

Susan Stout, World Bank Result Secretariat, who retired from the Bank the day before, after 25 years of service, noted in her remarks, at the inaugural banquet, that this was the kind of "bold action" that Africa has been missing from its people. 

Nigerian, Dr. Joseph Okpaku, president of Africa Telecom, advised the group to learn from the "mistakes" of his generation.

Nadim Matta, Director of the Rapid Results Institute, remarked "this day will be remembered as the beginning of a new deal for Africa.”