Inside Africa: the Story of a Self-Made Entrepreneur who started with $0

In anticipation to the 7th anniversary of TROPICS MAGAZINE on March 11th, 2017, the PLUTON MAGAZINE team met with Venicia Guinot in Johannesburg, the city of gold. This is the story of a Self-Made young African woman who started her very first venture with $0 in her pocket…Ms. Venicia Guinot, Publisher and three-time awards-winning Editor-in-Chief at TROPICS MAGAZINE and the fearless Founder/President at the TROPICS MEDIA GROUP answers that it is “AFRICA’S DUTY” to tell its own story.

Back in 2010, as South Africa was getting ready to welcome the world to its shores for the very first FIFA World Cup ever hosted on African soil, this young pan-Africanist woman founded her very own media venture (TROPICS MEDIA GROUP) with the main goal of changing the way Africa was handling its own image from within. Making it her own mission to launch one media brand at a time while tackling the market gap and dedicating the past ten years to producing qualitative contents that Africa and the world would be proud of, Ms. Guinot has since become a master of all things “media”. Extremely swamped in by work, yet she finds time to give back to the next generation through mentoring sessions that allows her to broaden her vision of what media should be, meeting the next faces of the media sector and, at the same time, working extremely hard to establishing strategic partnerships both regionally and globally.

Innovation and creativity being her ‘leitmotiv’, the media maven continues to lead the way in her industry, especially now, that her work has been acclaimed worldwide and most importantly by the United Nations Bureau of Central Africa (UNOCA). As she continues to reflect on the untold and more true stories of the African continent that never make headlines in the mainstream media, Ms. Guinot strongly believes that the people of Africa and their various cultures can help shape a better image of themselves as a people and bringing all their success-stories to light, she strives to constantly produce original contents that appeal to global audiences.