Ebike entrepreneur Valeria Labi: ‘If I see a problem and I think it can be solved, I follow that thread’

Valerie Labi hopes that her Wahu Mobility company, maker of Ghana’s first ebike, will eventually be producing 50,000 machines a year. Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer

Valerie Labi, co-founder and chief executive of Wahu Mobility, enjoys a challenge. “If I see a problem and I think it can be solved, I follow that thread,” she says.

The latest problem for Labi, whose company has produced Ghana’s first electric bicycle, is trying to persuade the country’s delivery riders to swap their ageing petrol motorcycles for herWahu ebikes.