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!

Entrepreneurs Enter Africa SMME Awards by June 30, 2007

SMMES IN SOUTH AFRICA, WEST AFRICA, EAST AFRICA, CENTRAL AFRICA AND
NORTH AFRICA MAY ENTER…
ENTER NOW….

In line with the NEPAD’s drive to support and profile the role that SMMEs play in promoting economic growth and job creation, the Africagrowth Academy in partnership with NORSAD AGENCY, MOMENTUM FUNDSATWORK, SEDA, and Xstrata SA and other enterprise support agencies will be organising the 2007 Africa SMME Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony on the 25th of October 2007, at the Crown Reef Convention Centre, Gold Reef City Hotel, Ormonde, Johannesburg, South Africa. The Conference and Awards ceremony will be aimed at presenting latest trends in SMME development in the continent and recognising and presenting awards to successful SMMEs by sector. The main aim is to support and showcase Africa’s finest entrepreneurial achievements in the SMMEs sector were the winners of each category will be announced at a gala dinner the evening of the 25th of October 2007.

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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*This communication is from David S. Fick, author of books concerning successful entrepreneurs creating jobs in all 53 countries of Africa and improving the quality of life in their African communities.

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.

For immediate availablity in the United States, please contact the author David Fick. EMail: WhlgEagle@aol.com and Fick will immediately ship at $50 per book, shipping included within the United States. Proceeds from sales from author's 246 book inventory are allocated 100% to support Doctors without Borders' medical relief projects in Africa.

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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ags: entrepreneurship in Africa, Xstrata SA, Dina Potgieter

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.

Press Contact:

Benin Mwangi

Tags: beninmwangi.com, african travel, safari, investment promotion africa, benin mwangi

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.

Tags: David S. Fick, beninmwangi.com

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.

Tags: David Fick, Africa Continent of Opportunity

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?

Tags: blog network, benin mwangi, africa enterprise, africa blogger

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"

Tags: Fashion, Urban, africa, african fashion