For Immediate Release
African Path launches social networking site
Visit African Path Village
Minneapolis, MN December 07, 2007 - African Path (http://www.blogger.com/www.africanpath.com) has just launched the African Path Village (http://village.africanpath.com/). African Path works at providing Africans with a platform where they can own and tell their stories on the global stage.
“The Village will allow our site visitors to connect and share the unique cultures from within Africa,” says Joshua Wanyama, founder of African Path. “We strive to provide a great online space that represents the continent. We are excited about the African Path Village as we have now opened doors for a lot of people to tell their stories while interacting with friends and family on our space.”
The growth of online communities has also made it possible for people to connect and discover new worlds. The African Path Village will facilitate this connection while providing the added benefit of news and opinion content from our flagship site African Path and our business site Cheetah Index.
This additional service allows African Path to better serve a growing number of site visitors seeking to connect with African culture, access breaking news and opinion on the continent and discover new businesses serving the African communities worldwide.
About African Path
African Path is an online portal that allows Africans to tell their own stories on the global stage. While most representation of Africa outside the continent is by foreign media houses, African Path provides the platform for Africans to express themselves. The site features daily headlines, opinion and commentary through our comprehensive blogs and an interactive calendar.
Visit us today http://www.africanpath.com/, http://village.africanpath.com/
For comprehensive business news in Africa: http://www.cheetahindex.com/
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For further information please contact us:
African Path
242 W Franklin Av, Ste. 301
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: 612 424 5459
Benin “Mwangi” Brown
http://www.blogger.com/benin@africanpath.com
Joshua Wanyama
http://www.blogger.com/Joshua@africanpath.com
Saturday, December 8, 2007
African Path launches social networking site
Monday, November 26, 2007
African Path launches Cheetah Index
African Path launches business site
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.
The Cheetah Index derives both its name and inspiration from Ghanaian economist Dr. George B.N. Ayittey, author of Africa Unchained. A central topic in this book is the new generation of young African professionals who look at Africa ’s problems from a different and revolutionary perspective. Dr. Ayittey believes that this group of professionals plays a central role in re-vitalizing African economies. This group of progressive, problem solving and action-oriented Africans are called the “Cheetah Generation”.
African Path will build the Cheetah Index into a leading online resource for Africa ’s current generation of decision makers. These will include managers, entrepreneurs, government officials, educationists and other people who influence Africa ’s development. The site will provide breaking business news, profiles on African entrepreneurs and industry news while making it easier for business people from Africa and other continents to connect and network.
The site will premiere on November 26, 2007 at http://www.cheetahindex.com.
About African Path
African Path is an online portal that allows Africans to tell their own stories on the global stage. While most representation of Africa outside the continent is by foreign media houses, African Path provides the platform for Africans to express themselves. The site features daily headlines, opinion and commentary through our comprehensive blogs and an interactive calendar.
Visit us today http://www.africanpath.com
Thursday, September 27, 2007
The 5th Carnival of African Enterprising Coming to African Executive
Submit your articles for The 5th Carnival of African Enterprising to
be hosted in the African Executive Magazine in October
The 5th Carnival of African Enterprising will be hosted by "Branded in
his blog Business in Focus" and in the prestigious "African Executive
Magazine". This edition will also be featured in the annual Africa
Resource Bank meeting where Branded will present all views expressed
by The Carnival participants.
The Carnival Topic "Positioning Africa in the 21st Century" is
sponsored by The "Africa Resource Bank Meeting" which will be held in
Tanzania from the 11th to 14th November 2007.
(All interested bloggers who may wish to attend The "Africa Resource
Bank Meeting" meeting in Tanzania are welcome to register "HERE".
The objective of the Carnival theme is to Explore the reason behind
the success of the West and Emerging Eastern Economies and how they
can be applied in Africa.
All intrested Bloggers are requested to submit their content/Articles
along any of the following topics or any other topic that you may find
relevant to Africa in the 21st Century:
1. Effects of colonization on Africa's Economic Development
2. Who invented Africa and how can Africans gain from it?
3. The role of Aid and the future of Africa
4. Migration and the brain drain debate
5. Global warming and the future of trade in Africa.
6. Business and Entrepreneureship culture - Lessons from the East
7. Leveraging on China's thirst for raw materials to develop Africa
8. Economic Intergration in Africa
9. Tax harmonization in Africa
10. Alcohol policies in Africa
11. Reviewing the education system to meet the needs of Africa
12. Promoting the African Voice.
Submit your articles today.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
2nd Carnival of Africa Enterprising!
Don’t miss Carnival of Africa Enterprising on July 6, 2007 on the African Loft. Also, if you would like to submit your post please do so befor 10 pm on July 5, 2007 at blogcarnival.com
The primary theme of this issue is about be the current trade vs aid in Africa debate and the secondary theme will be empowerment through entrepreneurship.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
1st Edition of the Africa Enterprising Blog Carnival!
I am pleased to announce the first edition of the new blog Carnival for Africa Enterprising, which premiered on African Path this morning.
The Blog Africa Enterprising is the publicity arm of the Africa Enterprising Blog Network. And the aim is to promote increased awareness about Africa's trade potential by publicizing blogs and the bloggers who focus on business or entrepreneurship in Africa.
For those of you who may not be familiar with blog carnivals, here's a good definitionwhich comes by way of blogcarnival.com
We think blog carnivals are a great way for bloggers to recognize each
other's efforts, organize blog posts around important topics, and improve the
overall level of conversation in the blogosphere. Carnivals come in edited
"editions", just like magazines or journals. The fact that carnivals are edited
(and usually annotated) collections of links lets them serve as "magazines"
within the blogosphere, and carnival hosts can earn their readership by
providing high quality collections.
Since blog carnivals include lots of posts on specific topics, they also
serve as a place to connect with those who are expert (or at least highly
opinionated!) and those who are interested in that field.
The carnival went "live" on the African Path(http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=942 ) this Wednesday June 6, 2007 morning at 10 am eastern standard time. Hat tips to Joshua for the great formatting job that he did on this edition.
The addresses where you can find past and future issues and links are:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/tb_10849.htmlhttp://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Also, if you'd like to participate in this and or future issues of this blog carnival, there are several ways for you to do it.
- you may submit 1 or 2 of your past blog posts about business or entrepreneurship, as it pertains to one or more African countries
- You may write about the blog carnival.
- You may add the blog carnival to your blogroll
- Or you may join the discussion group.
Otherwise, we hope that you enjoy this first edition of the blog carnival for Africa Enterprising!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Entrepreneurs Enter Africa SMME Awards by June 30, 2007
NORTH AFRICA MAY ENTER…
ENTER NOW….
IS YOUR BUSINESS THE BEST IN AFRICA?
Your small, medium or micro enterprise (SMME) may be recognised as the Africa SMME of the Year.
If your business has grown in a responsible and sustainable manner over the last few years and is furthermore contributing to the African and local economy, we feel you need recognition.
Businesses from all sectors, with a turnover ranging between R40 000 and R10 million, may compete for this awards and the ultimate honour will be to achieve the overall award for the SMME of the Year. There will be extensive media coverage and business exposure as well as prize money of R15 000, R20 000 & R25 000 for 3rd, 2nd & 1st place and R30 000 for the overall winner.
Winners will take the spotlight at a gala awards evening in Johannesburg on the 25th of October 2007.
Enter now for this very exciting competition and your company might be the 2007 AFRICA SMME of the year.
Closing date for entries: 30 June 2007
Contact
Dina Potgieter
Africagrowth Research
PO Box 3628, Tygervalley, South Africa, 7536
Tel: (021) 946 1791
Fax: (021) 946 1652
Email: dina@africagrowth.com
Website: www.africagrowth.com
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The majority of 2003, 2004, and 2005 Africa SMME Awards winners and finalists are featured in the book Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity Africa: Continent of Economic OpportunitySTE Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2006, Please visit Website: http://www.ste.co.za/ for description and availablitity in Africa and Europe.
African Entrepreneurs in the 21st CenturyBeing researched for 2008 publication.
Please suggest to the author David Fick, EMail: WhlgEagle@aol.com successful entrepreneurs to feature in this book. The majority of 2006 and 2007 Africa SMME Awards winners and finalists will be featured in this book. As with my first and second books, in recognition of everyone's support author's royalties (percentage of print runs) due to me from sales of the third book will also go to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to support their medical relief projects in Africa.
Entrepreneurship in Africa, A Study of SuccessesQuorum Books, March 2002
Please visit http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/Q536.aspx
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Why This Africa Site Ranks So Highly on Google
Press Release
Who Ranks Number 1 on Google for Africa?
Find out about a most informative site. Who also ranks #1 on Google for a number of topics centering on Africa.
Benin Mwangi says, "We are talking about Africa-ATA otherwise known as the Africa Travel Association. Now in addition to this site housing the association website, they are also home to the organization’s media publication-Africa Travel."
This post further goes on to examine possible reasons that the website ranks so highly in google searches.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Who is David S. Fick?
David S. Fick
Fick is the author of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes and is currently researching his third book, African Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century, which will feature examples of African entrepreneurs who have demonstrated visionary and strategic entrepreneurial leadership across the continent. Fick generously donates all author’s royalties due to him from the sale of his first – and this, his second – book to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in support of their medical relief projects in Africa and will do the same when his third book is published.
Recently, Benin Mwangi had the pleasure of exchanging dialogue with a world reknowned author who has written two popular books about entrepreneurship in Africa. The author's 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. The first part premiers on beninmwangi.com. The second half, which provides instruction from Mr. Fick on how you can participate in the launch of his upcoming book will be premiered on the African Path.
Acclaimed Author David Fick Has Something to Say About Africa
Recently, Benin Mwangi had the pleasure of exchanging dialogue with a world reknowned author who has written two popular books about entrepreneurship in Africa. The author's 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. The first part premiers on beninmwangi.com. The second half, which provides instruction from Mr. Fick on how you can participate in the launch of his upcoming book will be premiered on the African Path.
About David S. Fick
Fick is the author of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes and is currently researching his third book, African Entrepreneurs in the 21st Century, which will feature examples of African entrepreneurs who have demonstrated visionary and strategic entrepreneurial leadership across the continent. Fick generously donates all author’s royalties due to him from the sale of his first – and this, his second – book to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in support of their medical relief projects in Africa and will do the same when his third book is published.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Announcing the Africa Enterprising Blog Network
Africa Enterprising Blog Network!
Posted by beninmwangi on May 14th, 2007
Hi, I thought I’d let you know one of the things that we are working on. It’s a netwrok of bloggers who writes about some aspect of business in or with Africa. Below is an excerpt from our website:
This group is about publicizing blogs and the bloggers who focus on business or entrepreneurship in Africa.
The idea behind this type of network is that although me may each be very skilled and talented on the individual level, together we can do even more to promote busines and entrepreneurship in Africa.
If you are an Africa blogger who blogs on business or industries in Africa, then this group can help you by:
- providing you with syndicated related content
- publicizing your content
This can help you to do two things really well:
- grow your readership and
- spread the message about the viability of business and entrepreneurship in Africa.
Which is probably why you began blogging in the first place, right?
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
beninmwangi.com-Africa Blogger on Fashion
beninmwangi.com: "Posted by beninmwangi on May 8th, 2007
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This audio interview accompanies the press release that was published on beninmwangi.com on April 11, 2007.
An interview between Benin Mwangi of beninmwangi.com and Frederic Tape of Africaincorp. The discussion centers around African fashion and the upcoming launch of the Enrique Pierre Clothing Line.
This press release came to me by way of fellow Africa blogger Frederic Tape. Of course, we already knew what a wonderful blogger he is, writing with such flair and originality. But as it turns out, he is also quite the business person, as well and is involved with a fashion design company here in the States (Virginia) called Stockpile of Southern Urbanity Enrique Pierre Clothing.
Stockpile of Southern Urbanity Enrique Pierre Clothing ( www.enriquepierre.com) is the new fashion concept that is set to land in the United States market. Enrique Pierre Clothing is the offspring of New entrants to the fashion industry Enrique Pascal & Pierre-Louis who fuse Southern comfy style with very avant-garde decorative designs.
EPC couples its fashion aptitude with affordable prices for its customers. ‘ The focus of our production is to attain quality on each piece of clothing, while maintaining low cost of production which translates into affordable pricing for our customers.’ says Pie"
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Economic Reformer and Investment Banker Targets Africa
BeninMwangi.com
Press Release
BeninMwangi.com Announces Interview with Investment Banker & Economic Reformer Craig Chirinda Marietta, GA - May 5, 2007
Find out how craig chirinda channels billions of dollars in investment to african economies.This is an interview between beninmwangi.com, a website and blog focusing on entrepreneurship in Africa, and Craig Chirinda, economic reformer and investment banker.
The interview talks about Craig's track record for helping to pump billions in southern African Economies.Hear what Craig Chirinda, economic reformer who's channeled nearly 4 USD billion in African economies has to say about the future economic development of the continent. He takes us through his life as a venture capitalist, investment banker, and economic reformer in an interview with Benin "Mwangi" of beninmwangi.com This interview shows us how and why Craig has been able to put so much into various African industries. This interview is a must read for anyone considering doing either business or social investment in Africa.[Read HERE]
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Kenya Diaspora Investment Forum 2007
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