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City-Africa Clusters

Catalyzing economic, trade, business, investment, and capital flows between African countries and other countries.

Accelerators

Helping African and foreign firms grow simultaneously through a unique combination of networks, resources, and cross-sector clusters.

Afristratos Ecosystems

Afristratos™ is a strategy, structure, and methodology for leveraging partnerships via business ecosystems that drive new economic/business/investment opportunities.

Charlotte Africa News: May 2013

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The month of May has brought tremendous opportunities for increasing momentum for our Charlotte Africa Initiative. We have moved forward by making new, and strengthening existing. strategic Charlotte regional energy partner connections via the locally held Energy, Inc. Summit, as well as solidifying key U.S. government connections, including the Sub-Saharan Africa Committee of EXIM Bank and the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, via the Global Diaspora Forum held in Washington, DC. And providentially, the final thread for this month is that the World Affairs Council of

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Charlotte Africa Resources: April 2013

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Media Charlotte is Ready for Africa – On April 12, Fox News aired interviews with Lauri Elliott, Executive Director of the Afribiz Foundation, and Ronnie Bryant, CEO of Charlotte Regional Partnership on the business-to-business engagement going on between Charlotte and South Africa. Economic Ties between Charlotte and South Africa – On June 21, 2012, Terrance Bates of Fox News interviewed Consul General George Monyemangene about building economic ties between Charlotte and South Africa. Opportunities in Africa, Part 2 – On April 23, 2012, Lauri Elliott of Afribiz, Hartmut Sieper of

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New Research Initiative on Leveraging African Transmigrant Entrepreneurs to Do Business in Africa

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May 20, 2013, Charlotte, North Carolina The Afribiz Foundation announced today a new research initiative, “African Entrepreneurs and Global Business.” (AEGB) The first project underway focuses on how US firms can identify and develop partnerships with African transmigrant entrepreneurs that can be leveraged to do business successfully in Africa. The hypothesis for the project is simple:  US firms will be better positioned to successfully navigate the African business environment if these firms develop relationships with transmigrant African entrepreneurs.  Transmigrant African entrepreneurs are those entrepreneurs who have lived, worked, and conducted

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US-South Africa Business Development Delegation 2013: September 8-15, Johannesburg, South Africa

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The Afribiz Foundation is leading a business development delegation to South Africa for US firms, September 8 through September 15, 2013. This trip will cover the energy (renewable/green, traditional), infrastructure, manufacturing, and banking/finance sectors. Like traditional business delegations, we help US firms connect with potential business partners in South Africa. Unlike traditional business delegations, we help US firms to develop partnerships in real-time and accelerate their business ventures in Africa through leveraging, synergized resources with pre-delegation and post-delegation facilitation. Also, unlike many others we maintain our own local operations in

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Building a Footprint in African City Markets: Webinar, May 8, 2013

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Lauri Elliott, CEO of the Afribiz Group, will lead a panel of experts that will walk you through a strategy focused on accelerating entry into African consumer markets. The strategy focuses on developing footprints in high population cities like Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Cairo, Kinshasa, many of which are capital cities. Africa is a vast continent with 54 countries, which makes it hard for companies to see the trees for the forest, but developing a network of markets in high-population cities makes strategy more pragmatic. The strategy is the

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