Africa News: Voices of Africa
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Video Interviews with entrepreneurs live at the BiD Network SME Market Place, December 4th in Amsterdam.
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Olivier Nyirubugara, AfricaNews, Amsterdam
1. Business in rural areas - Ethiopia
It is a strong but wrong belief that African countryside is good just for farming. For this reasons, local and foreign investors establish their businesses in big cities, leaving the countryside to development and aid workers. Desalegne Simachew sees things differently. (Watch VIDEO)
2. Business in rural areas -Tanzania
Contrary to what most African youths think, graduating from the University does not mean turning away from the village and villagers for a comfortable office as a senior civil servant.
(Watch VIDEO)
3. Kenya: Women catch up in business
African women have embarked on a decisive emancipation campaign in all sectors of public life, including politics, education, business, and so on. (Watch VIDEO)
4. Business in rural areas- Benin
Bankole Fakambi is planning to start his coconut-Juice bottling company in the countryside in the Republic of Benin. His strategy is to involve rural families in his business, which is targeting restaurants, hotels, athletes, events organizers and so on.
(Watch VIDEO)
5. Business in rural areas - Uganda
Africa is most of the time considered as a continent of traditions, which is gradually receiving or importing modernity from abroad. This way of considering Africa belongs now to the past as inventive entrepreneurs have undertaken to use traditions such crop farming and pottery to start prosperous businesses.
(Watch VIDEO)
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