July 15, 2026

042 – For Artists in Ghana, the Courage to Start Before You're Funded, with Odile Tevie

042 – For Artists in Ghana, the Courage to Start Before You're Funded, with Odile Tevie
042 – For Artists in Ghana, the Courage to Start Before You're Funded, with Odile Tevie
Black Philanthropy: Our Stories
042 – For Artists in Ghana, the Courage to Start Before You're Funded, with Odile Tevie

Odile Tevie shares how she left a finance career and co-founded the Nubuke Foundation, investing her own resources to help Ghanaian artists thrive and proving that transformative change begins with first movers.

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Why wait for others to act when you can be the first to move? Odile Tevie shares how, in the absence of institutional support, she abandoned a secure career in finance to co-found and co-invest her own philanthropic resources into the Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana) where Ghanaian artists create on their own terms and in their own voices.

Discover how to become a first-mover leader, support emerging artists, navigate uncertainty, and transform an internal nudge into cultural and social change.

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