Kenyan entrepreneur Agnes Vorreiter nominated for top Pan-African Award

The reputable design powerhouse, who also is a model and a hypergamy advocate, has been nominated alongside some other leading African personalities drawn from all over the continent.

Her nomination comes just a year after she was nominated, yet again, in a continental capacity when she emerged as one of the nominees at the AFRONEWS Awards 2023, where she was nominated under the Best African Social Media personality in Germany category. 

As a nominee in the Best Young Achiever Humanitarian of the Year category, Nessy will be facing off with some notable names across Africa including Uganda's Spice Diana, Zambia's George Mwanza, Tanzania's Goldlisten Malisa and Ghana's Nana Tea.

The packed category will also see her go head to head with Motaung Magauta (South Africa), Haisa Moolman (Swaziland), Atong Amos (South Sudan) and Arnaud Galuga (Burundi).

The ever-ambitious Nessy, 34, was born and brought up in Nairobi's Pumwani area, growing up admist the rough city atmosphere but remaining focused and always engrossed with a life of success and excellence.

In a past interview, Nessy, who speaks fluent German and English, spoke of her stratospheric rise to the top, describing herself as a go-getter who could not let any situation deter her from achieving her goals and rising to the very top.

"I'm a big dreamer," she said. "I've always looked at myself and saw this big girl with big dreams and aspirations and always set out to achieve them, allowing very little to hinder my path and setting my eyes on the prize at all times."

The soft-spoken Nessy is also the founder of two formidable entities - the Simply Feminine Network and Afrossy Fashion Designs.

At Simply Feminine Network, Nessy aspires to inspire young women to rise to the top and reach for their dreams, using her own life example as the template for millions of young African women who look up to her and follow her journey online.

A highly skilled individual with deep knowledge and a talent for raising giants, Nessy has remained committed to the cause of women from not just Kenya from Africa as a whole, using her platform to inspire, educate and also support young women in the best of her capabilities while also according them opportunities to take on the world and chart their own paths to success.

To vote for Nessy, one can simply log on to the Africa Votes website where instructions to vote have been well laid out for all intending to participate. Voting ends on 25 April 2025.