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2.2 Sectoral performance II: Economic Report on Africa 2007
The industrial sector
Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail.

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African Digerati: Ethan Zuckerman
Ethan Zuckerman is the 5th in the African Digerati series of interviews. Honestly, I’m amazed with what Ethan has done with technology and what he continues to do - so much of which directly benefits Africans. His line-up of web projects is simply amazing. What isn’t mentioned here is that he founded Geekcorps, a non-profit technology volunteer corps, that creates real tangible technology change on the African continent. He’s also on my “required reading” list of African bloggers.

Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail.
Creating an African film experience
Chadian filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is dedicated to his craft. Like many African born filmmakers he is intent of furthering the African experience through film. Using his country, Chad, as a backdrop he is currently at work on another film that puts a face on the people who experience the challenges of living on the continent. A recent Washington Post article talks about the lengths to which he and his crew are going to make his movie Dry Season authentic. To some extent his filmmaking style is more documentary than entertainment. His previous films Bye Bye Africa and Abouna similarly put a face on the 30-year Chadian civil war.

2.1 The rise and fall and rise of private sector: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
At this point in Tanzania’s history, the culture of entrepreneurship is in need of revitalization. During the years of colonial rule in the country, the development of indigenous entrepreneurship was hampered. Tanzanians of African origin were mainly employed as laborers in cash crop farming, with limited access to business.
Regional Economic Communities in Africa
Regional economic integration has a long history in Africa. The South African Customs Union (SACU) was established in 1910 while the East African Community (EAC) was set up in 1919. The East African Community collapsed in 1987 but is now being actively revived. Currently there are 14 regional economic communities in Africa.
Removal of Barriers and Enhancement of Market Access: Barriers to African External Trade
It is now widely believed that a major challenge to the expansion of trade by African countries is that of increasing access to developed country markets.
Cheetah Index to Premiere Soon!
As part of our mission to fill the void left by conventional media in covering African issues, African Path will take an active role in supporting and empowering the continent’s young and progressive decision makers. Today, African Path announces the launch of a dedicated business section under the African Path network which will be branded as the Cheetah Index. Currently the site will run on a Beta version.
Random Ghana Company Factoids du Jour
I’ve been following for a few years the surprising resurgence – and I use that word advisedly -- in the Ghana economy. After being in effective collapse for some time, inflation has been declining, banks becoming more healthy, and GDP growing nicely in this resource-rich, entrepreneurial and (relatively) stable African country.

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The African Market: Challenges for SMEs and Responses
In the presentation of WUSME World Union of SMEs on 20th May 2011 at the VI.African Summit, chaired by the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria H.E. Obasanjo, the market trends and opportunities for Micro- Small and Medium Enterpriseswere summarized as follows: Focusing on the economic development in the „Danger Zones” of the African Continent, the Sub Saharan Countries remain a challenge and urgently need to be addressed. These are the African Savanna and Sahel: Niger, Sierra Leone, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Central African Republic, Chad, northern Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia.

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