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Written by: Benin Mwangi

African Business Women Series: Why So Important - Click To Read Article
I think that a good place to begin this discussion is to address the perception of Africa’s women from those who are outside and looking inside.

Today’s Profiles of Entrepreneurship in Africa: Aliko Dangote - Click To Read Article
Today’s Profiles of Entrepreneurship in Africa, is about why Africa’s future is so bright.

African Path Interview with Sandstorm Kenya - Click To Read Article
For those of you who have not yet had a chance to read this interview, I highly recommend that you do it. The interview is between Joshua Wanyama, Editor of African Path and Keith Steel, owner of apparel maker Sandstorm Kenya.

7 Lessons from Africa’s Successful Entrepreneurs? - Click To Read Article
So far The Benin Epilogue has attempted to tackle several different issues. Key among them have been: Building awareness about the entrepreneurs behind a few of Africa’s most thriving enterprises Helping to illustrate why foreign firms should do more foreign direct investment in Africa Attempting to showcase the diversity that exists in Africa’s business environment One of the topics which we have not touched on yet, here, is what can a entrepreneur in Africa do to find success?

Writing Phenom David S. Fick Talks with Benin Mwangi! Part One - Click To Read Article
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.

Writing Phenom David S. Fick Talks with Benin Mwangi! Part Two - Click To Read Article
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. The first part we are premiering here 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.

What if They Don’t Buy? - Click To Read Article
This post I am writing in response to the story about the UK Soil Association’s decision to increase barriers to airfreight produce imports from other countries. When I read this story my heart became heavy for the Kenyan and Ghanaian farmers who will likely lose income and might ultimately be forced to sell or reorganize their farms; as a result of the harsh new standards imposed upon agricultural products flown into the UK from abroad.

Uganda - Africa's Newest Investment Darling? - Click To Read Article
It is always good to have a positive role model. Especially one who has endured the occasional long and harsh roads and is still here to tell about it. Generally, this type of role model not only earns the respect of their peers; but also gains a stable of followers. In the African context, if we are talking about recent economic growth amidst large hurdles, it is difficult to disregard Uganda.

Trade Versus Aid in Africa, Who Wins? - Click To Read Article
It seemed like the time was right for me to pen this post about trade -vs- aid. This is a discussion that has a tremendous amount of relevance in Sub Saharan Africa. But it is also relevant in other parts of the world where developing economies are predominate.

Shining Star-the Africa Report - Click To Read Article
I recently caught another episode of the Africa Report , which appeared on The Africa Channel. The show was so good that I decided to share with you some general feedback.

Preciss Speaks-Champion a Nation Through Outsource! - Click To Read Article
Some of you may recall that last year on the Benin Epilogue, we featured a piece on the entrepreneur behind a Business Process Outsource (BPO) company from Kenya called Preciss Patrol. Actually, it was one of my favorite posts because it encapsulated so many important facets of entrepreneurship-all in one story.

Outsourcing Business Processes to Africa - Click To Read Article
For those of you who have not known me long, you may not have known me long-but you do know that I am crazy about letting others know why they should be doing business in Africa. But people are imperfect, as I wholeheartedly admit that I am an example of human imperfection. It has occurred to me that sometimes in my zest for talking about Africa’s business environments, I may tend to speak in a very general sense. But maybe if you have been on the receiving end of such a conversation, and you have said to yourself-”what type of business in Africa?” or “Africa, I thought that people only go there to help the needy”.

Kenya’s Own: Kimani Wanguhu Envisions Empowerment! - Click To Read Article
This post was originally posted by Benin Mwangi on Kenya Imagine. It is actually the interview thatWilson Kimani Wanguhu and myself did about his brainchild-Kenya Empowerment News. And by the way, you can expect to see more collaboration between our two sites in the future-so stay tuned, eh?

Inspiration - Click To Read Article
During my time away from blogging about entrepreneurship in Africa, I have been inspired by the works of my neighbors ( in the Africa blogosphere). So I wanted to highlight a few of the posts that have left me in adoration.

How Do African Businesses Get Start Up Capital? - Click To Read Article
Hi again, sorry again for the long pause. It seems to be occurring more than what I would like, but things have been moving at whirlwind pace recently. Anyway, this is a question for all of you entrepreneurs, business students, professors, and others in the know on the inner workings of start ups in Africa. How did you or someone that you know get start up funds?

Happy One Year Blogging Anniversary! - Click To Read Article
November 3, 2007 was actually my official one year anniversary as a blogger. It has been extremly fun and eductional. The goal for my upcoming year of blogging is to further merge my blogs into my offline activities. We’ll see how it works out.

Farewell from Benin Mwangi - Click To Read Article
Hi all, I know this is probably somewhat late notice. But the decision that I have made has been one of the most difficult in my life-discontinuing beninmwangi.com.

Council on Foreign Relations Tracks 2008 Candidates on Africa Policy - Click To Read Article
One of my all time favorite publications, dealing with economics and international affairs, is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) . I have been reading this journal for almost a decade and view it almost in the way that I’d view an encyclopedia. So you can imagine my enthusiasm for them drawing attention towards U.S. Policy Toward Africa. In this instance what they have done is created a tool that can be used to summarize the views and records of each presidential candidate for the 2008 US elections. CFR has named this tool the Issue Tracker -The Candidates on U.S. Policy toward Africa.

Cheetah Index to Premiere Soon! - Click To Read Article
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.

Afrokicks Tells Benin Mwangi How to Rep Africa - Click To Read Article
Recently I had a chance to chat with Mr. Tunde Noibi, co-founder of a very innovative sneaker company called Afrokicks. What I like about the company is thow they’ve carried out their idea to showcase African countries through sneakers. Plus, it doesn’t hurt that they are so fashionable and appealing to different crowds-these kicks are hot! Let’s hear what Mr. Noibi has to say about Afrokicks…

Africa’s ICT Leaders: Present and Forecasted - Click To Read Article
What does an emergent IT sector mean for Africa, some have asked. It may mean the following:

Africa’s Infrastructure-Incremental or Entrepreneurial? - Click To Read Article
Ordinarily, when I run into the opening phrase, ” what Africa needs is…” my mind is then prepared to hear all manners of conjecture next-maybe because the phrase connotes one big homogeneous landscape, where there is uniformity throughout the furthest reaches of the continent. However, that all changed the moment that I stumbled onto Andrew Mack’s blog, yesterday. For his post seemed to start in a similar way, but what came next made a lot of sense to me. This post was inspired by a post on Ethan’s blog, however, Andy holds a slightly different view of the continents infrastructure related challenges.





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