Going, Going, Ghana: Inside Jorn Lyseggen’s Accra Startup Incubator

Talent Scout: Jorn Lyseggen lives by the mantra “Talent is talent, everywhere.” He’s proving it in West Africa.

The bridge on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, looks like something from an Indiana Jones movie: a series of creaky wooden planks suspended by rope over a fetid stream. Towering palm trees and tin-roofed shacks dot the overgrown landscape.

Appearances can be misleading. The span was designed and built by engineers trained by the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology, a progra...