Benedicte Mundele (born 1993), also called Benedicte Mundele Kuvuna, is a fresh-food entrepreneur from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She is founder and manager of Surprise Tropical, established 2012, a food canteen serving healthy, takeaway food in the suburbs of Kinshasa. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Mundele attended the Elynd Institute in Kinshasa and the Lycée Technique et Professionnel de Kimbondo, joining the Kuvuna Foundation aged 16. [7] In 2014 she was a finalist for the Anzisha Prize. In 2019, she was listed among the BBC's 100 Women. [8]