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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.
Judy Wawira
An aspiring young entrepreneur from Kenya talks about her businesses and what she sees in store for the future.
African Brands
The question of whether Africa can or should be promoted as a brand, or whether this will better be done by promoting individual products and countries, developed into a theme during this session.

Will Money Solve Africa's Development Problems?
The debate about Africa's development is ON and experts are pointing to all sorts of direction regarding the way forward for the continent. In this context, world renowned John Templeton Foundation published 8 essays in a series of conversations that sought to answer the question: Will Money Solve Africa’s Development Problems? The publication featured leading scientists and scholars in which Four essayists negate; two affirm while the rest express doubt.
My Advice For Other African Startups
The most important advice is to be creative. One often sees African Entrepreneurs, trying to sell exactly the same product at the same price and quality to the same client. Find a niche, and use it.
16.0 What Needs to be Done - Scaling Up: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Individuals, organizations, communities and governments involved in the development of African entrepreneurship need to scale up. By scaling up is meant increasing the level and sophistication with which we study, develop and implement policies, finance, management extension and support programs for African entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurship. Scaling up takes different meanings for researchers, public policy makers, support program managers, and the entrepreneurs themselves.

16.0 What Needs to be Done - Scaling Up: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Individuals, organizations, communities and governments involved in the development of African entrepreneurship need to scale up. By scaling up is meant increasing the level and sophistication with which we study, develop and implement policies, finance, management extension and support programs for African entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurship. Scaling up takes different meanings for researchers, public policy makers, support program managers, and the entrepreneurs themselves.

11.0 The Entrepreneurial Firm Capital Resources: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
The degree to which capital by itself is a major obstacle to the growth of African entrepreneurship remains debatable.
5.0 The African Entrepreneur Social Status/Relations: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Studies show that entrepreneurs enjoy higher social status and wider social relationships in their respective communities than non-entrepreneurs do.
Writing Phenom David S. Fick Talks with Benin Mwangi! Part One
Recently, I had the pleasure of exchanging dialogue with a world renowned author who has written two popular books about entrepreneurship in Africa. His name is David S. Fick. Because this interview is so detailed and filled to the brim with facts and information, the interview is broken into two parts.

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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.
2.0 The African Entrepreneur Demographic Characteristics: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Various personal demographic variables appear to differentiate successful from less successful entrepreneurs in Africa, as they do elsewhere (Kallon, 1990; Mead, 1999; Mead & Liedholm, 1998; Stewart, 1996). Earlier studies found that successful African entrepreneurs tended to be male, middle-aged, married with a number of children, and more educated that the general population.

16.0 What Needs to be Done - Scaling Up: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
Individuals, organizations, communities and governments involved in the development of African entrepreneurship need to scale up. By scaling up is meant increasing the level and sophistication with which we study, develop and implement policies, finance, management extension and support programs for African entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial firms and entrepreneurship. Scaling up takes different meanings for researchers, public policy makers, support program managers, and the entrepreneurs themselves.

Post-Annual Meetings Interview with AfDB Chief Economist: Africa needs a business-friendly environment
“African countries need to reduce the high administrative barriers and excessive regulations that result in substantial delays and high transactions costs to firms wishing to invest. Starting a business in most African countries is still relatively costly and getting a licence processed is time-consuming,” says AfDB Chief Economist, Louis Kasekende in an interview granted after the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group, held in Shanghai from 16-17 May 2007.
My Advice For Other African Startups
The most important advice is to be creative. One often sees African Entrepreneurs, trying to sell exactly the same product at the same price and quality to the same client. Find a niche, and use it.
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.
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.
Is Oprah The Only African American Woman Entrepreneur America Will Allow Success
Black Women,Is Oprah The Only African American Woman Entrepreneur America Will Allow Success? How African-American Women Entrepreneurs Can Capitalize In The Business World Now that We Have The 1st African American First Lady As An Example
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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