Eric Owusu Ansah, Founder, AfricanaTeensBuzz

Built between 1513 and 1515, Michelangelo’s Moses was not merely a sculpture carved in stone, but a moment of monolithic tension arrested in marble—a study in restraint, intention, and latent force. 

When Eric Owusu Ansah encountered this masterpiece through his writing on his own blog, mylimgoblog.blogspot.com, it ceased to be merely an art critique. Somewhere between observation and reflection, it revealed itself as a blueprint. 

In Moses, he saw a philosophy he would later live by: that the most powerful forms are shaped by mastering restraint, not by surrender. The entrepreneurial life of Eric Owusu Ansah mirrors this discipline. It is a sculpture in motion, where deliberate contradictions are held with care, and where each intentional detail serves a larger vision. Commissioned not by a pope, but by the urgent clarity of his 18-year-old self, Eric’s work has become an evolving monument to a single belief—that within African youth lies a profound, untapped vitality.

Initially, Eric started writing about music, and mylimgoblog.blogspot.com was more than a hobby. “It led me,” he says simply, into formal studies of leadership and entrepreneurship. He was learning to see the form within his own structure. From this first, humble block, the core anatomy of his vision was chiseled. And this sets his work apart, particularly in the context of global entrepreneurship, where Eric exhibits incredible attention to the human form—not of the body, but of potential. 

Today, Eric’s life embodies that sustained, unified strain he once admired from a distance. With one arm, he bears the weight of global systems as a Business Partner for BeForward, a Japanese-based global automotive company, navigating the complex logistics of importing vehicles across continents. It is the work of contracts, regulations, and scale—the modern-day tablet of commerce. This role taught him, in his words, “the way of importing,” a practical education in how the world’s machinery actually functions.

With his other arm, he performs that delicate lift he noted in Michelangelo’s masterpiece. He is the founder of AfricanaTeensBuzz, a platform dedicated to the dreams, stories, and self-expression of African youth. Inspired by traditional African masks, the emblem does not conceal identity—it protects it. In many African cultures, masks signify strength, transition, and spiritual evolution. Here, the mask becomes a metaphor for layered identity, resilience, and cultural pride, representing the tension between who one is, who one is becoming, and who the world expects one to be.

AfricanaTeensBuzz was born from Eric’s own coming-of-age—a recognition that belief, when offered early, changes trajectories. It encourages young people to work hard, stay grounded, and imagine success without apology. “It’s a reality I dreamt of,” Eric shares. “To be a CEO myself, empowering the youth to believe in every dream they have.” For Eric, this mask symbolism is deliberate. The mask tells African teens: you are allowed to be complex. You are allowed to outgrow your old self, and step into a new one. Rooted in cultural heritage, the mask is expressive of individual identity and the resolve to rise above adversity. It becomes a call for authentic self-expression, an unravelling of the creative soul—one that Eric considers indispensable to personal evolution and entrepreneurial success. 

Entrepreneurs reading this will recognize the quiet audacity behind Eric’s dual life. Managing business partnerships while building a youth-driven platform is not easy. Verification challenges, operational hurdles, and the constant demand to prove legitimacy arrive early when you choose entrepreneurship young. Eric does not romanticize these. He accepts challenges as “life outcomes”—part of the human condition. Progress, for him, is persistence. “You keep up the hard work to achieve such a dream in reality.” His use of “archive” instead of “achieve” feels unintentionally perfect; he’s building a living record of his journey.

So, how does he tie it all together? For Eric, it boils down to a simple, powerful belief: “I believe in future visionaries because every day and its dreams are built in shaping markets.” In his view, a market isn’t just a place to sell things. It’s a community. The discipline and global perspective he had gained from the auto trade directly informed his ability to build a sustainable platform for teens. Conversely, the hope and raw creativity he encounters through AfricanaTeensBuzz renew his purpose in the corporate world.

For the global entrepreneur, Eric’s masterpiece is a masterclass in structural integrity. “Managing my business is a duel,” he states, framing his hustle as a crafted art form. He speaks of challenges not as flaws in the stone, but as inherent veins that, when worked with skill, add character and strength. His journey from a blog to a Leadership and Entrepreneurship degree, and now to this dual-architect role, mirrors Michelangelo’s own path: a relentless study of underlying principles to liberate dynamic forms from static material.

Eric’s story isn’t about a legendary, solitary genius. It’s quieter, more relatable, and in many ways, more instructive. It’s about a young man from Ghana who started a blog, embraced the education his opportunities provided, and now works patiently to connect two points: the high-stakes reality of global commerce and the boundless potential of a teenager with a dream. He is, at his core, a bridge builder. And the traffic on that bridge flows both ways, carrying lessons in resilience from the community to the boardroom, and resources and belief from the boardroom back to the community. In a world that often asks us to choose one path, Eric Owusu Ansah is quietly, steadily, walking two—and making sure others can follow.