ALIGN="center" SRC="/cgtd/global/african/bizafr2.gif"> AFRICAN BUSINESS, ECONOMY, INFORMATION, INDUSTRY, TRADE, FORECAST, NEWS, ANALYSIS & INTERACTIVE DEBATE
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_African Economy and Business
_News briefs, Analysis, Opinions, Questions, Inter-active discussion
_Reports, forecast & tips on products, markets, areas
_Business Opportunities, Contacts for trade, export, import, investment
1.WHAT IS BUSINESS-AFRICA Africa is a large continent and the most mis-understood one. Many of world's important economic societies have flourished in this continent for ages unknown. We want to project the NEW Africa - which is vigorous and enthusiastic to do business, learn new techniques and be part of the wider global scene. African Economies have big challenges. The Challenges of race, nature, systems and ideologies. There are few areas in the continent which are troubled by unusual civil wars and local thugs/war-lords/dictators/revolutionaries; and there are others which may be the poorest but are proving to be clean democratic systems like Mali. There are many Africas: Arabic Africa Berber Africa Black Africa White Africa French Africa English Africa Portuguese Africa Swahili Africa Rural Africa Urban Africa Tribal Africa Sophisticated Africa Wonderful Africa Persecuted Africa Backward Africa Starving Africa Rich Africa What about Business Africa? .......These are all myths...The modern Africa is a wonderful continent with wonderfully talented people, like you and all of us, with vast resources, fabulous riches and with BIG markets. These are the last markets where the "developed" world thinks of in terms of market. This is a poor assessment of a vast continent with variety of colorful economic societies. A F R I C A - is a continent whose time has come. We can not ignore this incredibly rich market. There are many facts which we can give here but our mission is not to impress you or show you any favorable analysis.... the truth is that Africa is systematically ignored by the fast moving marketers. This is a sheer mistake. Africa is the continent of future - as much as its cultures are ancient. For centuries, Africa has been mis-managed by different interest groups, and the local interests have not been different than foreign interests who have equally exploited Africa for their personal gains and small profits. They have sold the countries' wealth for small commissions to reserve a suite in a posh Swiss hospital or to send their families on fabulous shopping tours or to simply erect palaces, when the majority of people have been kept in dark - by force or trick. But people can not be fooled anymore. African people have the same rights as any other global citizen. They are as entrepreneur as any clever businessman from Europe or Asia. The people of Africa have waken up but their economic backwardness is not of their making. They have been forced to be on the margins. African origin people are a mosaic of multiple races. AFRICA has many geo-economic areas presenting different opportunities. Africa is undergoing one of its most challenging of times and the change is notable and will be forthcoming out of apparent chaos. BUT NOT all countries or areas are chaotic or economically depressed. The world (Western) media has been totally unsuccessful in projecting the true images of Africa , at least the positive images. Africa needs business opportunities and proposals NOT aid. There is a deep vacuum of economic information from Africa. Business-Africa will try its best to fill that "gap" and hopefully will provide enormous business opportunities it presents. Business-Africa is an interactive forum for discussing, exchanging, commenting on news, views, issues, opinions on practices, customs and conducting business in Africa. In addition it will cover issues relevant to African origin people in different parts of the Americas -North, Central, South America, Caribbean & Europe. Business-Africa is moderated by Center for Global Trade Development - an independent research organization and its publications division offers some of the most qualitative, impartial and comprehensive customized trade information on African Markets. || Contributing to Business-Africa || You are very welcome to Business-Africa We invite you to write your impressions, views, questions, and information in brief and send to us. Remember, you message will reach a very wide audience in more 100 countries of the world. Our readers are people like you, coming from different walks of life and they have chosen to subscribe for their interest in African affairs and its economic and business issues. Africa is a great continent with many geo-political-economic areas and its communities are very diverse. In one way or the other we are all linked somewhere. The topics to write are as wide as your imagination. Some of the Possible Topics to discuss in Business-Africa: OO News of relevance to African markets OO Commentary and views OO Emerging Markets OO Innovations in International Marketing with African focus OO Info on countries, geo-economic areas in the process of Marketization. OO Market liberalization OO Privatization of public-sector firms OO The foreign cultures, people and their influence on Africa and its people. OO The contribution of foreign races in Africa OO The contribution of African Diaspora, African descent living in other continents. OO The exposure of real faces of foreign influence - the positive and negative OO Role of government and administration in the business OO Business , Commercial Laws and regulations OO Global tendencies and trends in specific products, markets and industries OO Role of new technologies, telecommunication, Internet in the future of business OO Impact of new technologies on local, national and global economic development OO Relationship of African countries with other countries & geo-economic areas OO Relationship of Africa with Asia, Europe, Ex-USSR, Latin & North America OO Relationship of different areas of the world with Africa and African regions OO Emerging changes in the developing nations OO Economic blocs like CEEAC, ECOWAS, UDEAC, SACU, PTAESAS, MAGHREB OO The impact of economic blocs on the national economies OO Foreign markets and their impact on job- market, Opportunities in the various segments of international trade OO Import, Export, Investment in the emerging markets OO Foreign trade and its influence on the national and local economies OO Sourcing new products, markets and customers OO Connecting with firms in all regions for exporting, marketing and sales OO Business Opportunities - Contacts for business between 2 companies OO And any other topic of interest to the subscribers OO Role of languages in conducting trade in Africa OO Announcements of trade shows, exhibitions, meetings, conferences, activities OO Job announcements OO New books on Business-africa scene OO Book reviews OO Travel to Africa 2. WHAT IS THE ADDRESS TO CONTACT BUSINESS-AFRICA The address is: africa This is the address to which you send messages & communicate with us. Business-africa members welcome your contributions, articles, views and any other information you may wish to share with the world. The messages may be moderated/edited. THIS IS NOT THE ADDRESS TO SEND SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE MESSAGES. 3. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE To subscribe send an email message to: majordomo and type: subscribe business-africa or subscribe business-africa your@email.address ( If you want to receive at a different address) 4. HOW TO UN SUBSCRIBE To unsubscribe and leave the list, type: unsubscribe business-africa in the body of your text to majordomo 5. HOW TO POST MESSAGES Post any message to africa While posting any stuff, please keep in mind its focus. The list owners reserve the right to delete anyone who post messages that are abusive or counterproductive. The list-owners are not responsible for any kind of claims or facts posted by any member. You can ask questions. No question is "too simple." There are lot of experts on this forum who may be able to reply your query. If you have a question, someone else probably also wants the answer. Keep your messages short to conserve bandwidth and save the resources of those subscribers who must pay to receive messages. Use a descriptive subject line. Many people decide whether they want to read a message based on the content of the subject line. So write a newspaper style headline or key words. Business-africa is not a "chat" list. If you want to start up a conversation with someone else, send it as email directly to them, not to the entire readership. We CAN only include edited, precise, clear, brief and standard 6 lines ADVERTISEMENTS related to Job Offers, Job Wanted, Product wanted or offered or any other personal or general nature ads. We are not responsible nor may reply to the ads which exceed the standard limits. We are not liable nor responsible for any mail lost or deleted. IMPORTANT: The acceptance of the ad is entirely on the discretion of the editors of Business-africa and they reserve the right to accept or cancel any ad on any ground. 6.OTHER IDEAS AFRICA has a variety of social, cultural, and economic systems. One has to understand that people in a country may not know some of the issues or things which might be hot in our area - so be very descriptive and if using abbreviations, atleast define them at the beginning. Many members do not use English as their first language. So please try to write simple and easy language. If you read a message with errors or unusual sentence structure, try to leave aside the linguistic skill of the writer and focus on what the author is trying to assert. If you cant resist to correct the writers' grammar than write him a mail directly and suggest him. 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