I post this as a follow up to the debate triggered by Prof. Vijay Mahajan, author of the book Africa Rising.
I also post to inform fellow business people of the vast opportunity Africa presents to thinkers.
As businessmen, let us begin to look at Africa as a Continent of more than 950million consumers, comparable in size to the population of China.
The market in Africa is not different from any other developing country. When Mahajan interviewed advertising agencies, Multinationals and local entr…
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Jerry
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I am working to promote for this model to be world-wide-initiative. I am not sure where it will grow and who will hold the first structure as it till now an individual concept draft .. may be under http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php which is becoming http://globalvillages.org/
when I have the time we will discuss about the topic in the forum here.
It is important to crowd as much people as possible around this open-source holistic free participative economic concept ..
I hope today I will be able to start a thread .
keep the good work and the hope for better future for all ~
I will be in Nairobi in late Aug - maybe we can have a coffee and chat about your project.
Sean
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