Eyram Tawia
Founder
Eyram Tawia is CEO and Cofounder of Leti Arts. His love for comics and computer games helped to spur his interest to learn to program growing up. He is convinced Africa will make a salient contribution to the world of game development and believes that this will create new job opportunities that will boost Africa's GDP. Eyram is an experienced game developer who designs and implements games in most programming languages based on the platform. He has won several awards for his contribution to the gaming industry including the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneurs Media Awards (2012), Vodafone Global Appstar 2014 Award, Africa Entrepreneurship Award 2015 and the World Summit Awards 2018. He’s a frequent speaker at game conferences globally and an author with his book Uncompromising Passion documenting his Journey as an African video game developer. Challenged with scarce African game development skill sets, he initiated an internship program that has trained 250+ students from Junior to Tertiary level. Eyram’s work pioneering gaming in Africa via superheroes landed him the opportunity to work with Riot Games as a narrative consultant on Astra, the first ever Ghanaian video game character in their popular video game Valorant. He recently became the Country director for Ambitious Africa, which is a Nordic organization leading change through young people. He has worked at MEST, which is one of the prominent tech hubs in Ghana and Africa with access to entrepreneurs in all the tech fields. He holds a BSc. degree in Computer Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He is a Yali fellow and also a member of the Harambe Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Network, which gives him access to diverse groups of entrepreneurs in the tech arena. He studied Business and Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Dartmouth College in the USA as part of the Mandela Washington fellowship program.