Category: Travel

New magazine changing image of African women

I’m an avid reader of publications both online and offline, so when I came across this new African women’s magazine called Kitu Kizuri at Barnes and Noble, I was intrigued. Having already been in contact with the editor for a feature on myself and Annansi Clothing Co. in the “American Dreams” section, I kind of…
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Five tactics for selling Africa-based products to non-Africans

I’ve been having discussions about the difficulties of selling African products to non-Africans for years. As I mentioned in my post about African affluence, and Benin expanded upon in his post on advertisers ignoring Africa, there are many hurdles that come with proving the worth of an Africa-focused product of service, especially when it comes…
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This week in African Style 4/14 – 4/20/07

Fighting Nigeria’s other drug war. Africa: Continent’s leading social entrepreneurs honored by Ashoka. Pope accuses rich of plundering Africa. Deola Sagoe for Caribbean Fashion Week June 6-10. Engineers want Europe-Africa train. Opposition protests erupt after flawed Nigeria poll. Ghanaian music is more than Highlife. Madonna filming her African trip. UN helicopter gunships get go-ahead to…
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Poll: Does everyone know more about Africa?

Over 20 years ago, 1985 to be exact, an all-star list of artists – Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Al Jarreau, The Pointer Sisters, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, and Lionel Richie among others – got together to “raise funds to help famine relief efforts in Ethiopia”. Named USA for Africa, the group…
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Business management programs travel to Africa

Businessweek reports on French business school, HEC, which is leading the way by taking the management programs to Senegal. The program’s focus is on the African cotton industry. Could this be a new trend in African business development? We need to adapt to local contexts and cultures. When we go to Africa, we need to…
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This week in African Style 4/7 – 4/13/07

Untapped: the scramble for Africa’s oil. Africa in pictures. Danny Glover joins Bob Marley tribute ‘Africa Unite’. African governments not doing enough. Gallery opening: NY thru the eyes of African immigrants. Plugging Africa’s kids in to $100 laptop. The silent takeover of the continent (Africa) by South African businesses. Gay travel in Africa. Luxury hotels…
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Bill Clinton talks Rwandan healthcare at TED 2007

The good folks at TED have released this video of former US President Bill Clinton’s acceptance speech as a winner of the 2007 TED prize. In his speech Clinton speaks about his Clinton Foundation‘s pilot health care system in Rwanda which is based on the work of Dr. Paul Farmer in Haiti. In 18 months…
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Chosan performs Blood Diamond from Bling is Dead

A few months ago some New York-based artists and arts organizations organized a concert to benefit Nah We Yone, a grassroots nonprofit organization that helps rebuild the shattered lives of refugees, asylees and asylum seekers from the African diaspora who have fled to the New York Metropolitan area due to ongoing political instability throughout the…
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Wharton Business School on entrepreneurship in Nigeria

While I’m on the subject of entrepreneurship in Africa, here’s a podcast from the Wharton Business School’s Knowledge website where Peter Bamkole, General Manager, Enterprise Development Services at Lagos Business School, talks with Olayinka David-West, a lecturer in information systems at Lagos Business School. The two men discuss Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ambitious goal to…
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Inc. Magazine’s ease of global business map

As a follow up to my previous post on my concerns about going home to do business, here is a link to Inc. magazine’s interactive map which plots the ease of doing business around the globe. The map shows the rate of growth for a country’s gross domestic product – according to World Bank data…
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