LIFE 175 / Youssouf Ballo, CEO of Legafrik: “We make life easier for entrepreneurs”
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:00 am
A leader in online legal services in West Africa, Legafrik simplifies the lives of entrepreneurs by allowing them to create their businesses online and in just a few clicks.
"Today, Legafrik is the leader in online legal services in West Africa."
You head Legafrik, a digital company focused on developing an innovative offering of digital legal services. Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
I'm Youssouf Ballo, CEO and co-founder of Legafrik. Before co-founding Legafrik, I worked as a lawyer in a law firm and then in the georgia mobile database department of a technology company in France.
What need does Legafrik meet?
Legafrik simplifies the lives of entrepreneurs by allowing them to create their businesses online in just a few clicks, modify their company's bylaws, approve their accounts and financial statements, and initiate debt collection procedures. It works as follows: the user goes to Legafrik.com, indicates the formality they wish to complete (create a company, for example), and completes a dynamic questionnaire in just a few minutes. Their responses are added to a legal database.
Its personalized documents are generated in Word and PDF formats. Legal experts and formalists handle all administrative, legal, and tax formalities. Legafrik operates in five countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin, with approximately fifty employees.
"Today, Legafrik is the leader in online legal services in West Africa."
You head Legafrik, a digital company focused on developing an innovative offering of digital legal services. Can you introduce yourself to our readers?
I'm Youssouf Ballo, CEO and co-founder of Legafrik. Before co-founding Legafrik, I worked as a lawyer in a law firm and then in the georgia mobile database department of a technology company in France.
What need does Legafrik meet?
Legafrik simplifies the lives of entrepreneurs by allowing them to create their businesses online in just a few clicks, modify their company's bylaws, approve their accounts and financial statements, and initiate debt collection procedures. It works as follows: the user goes to Legafrik.com, indicates the formality they wish to complete (create a company, for example), and completes a dynamic questionnaire in just a few minutes. Their responses are added to a legal database.
Its personalized documents are generated in Word and PDF formats. Legal experts and formalists handle all administrative, legal, and tax formalities. Legafrik operates in five countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, and Benin, with approximately fifty employees.