...It is unrealistic to expect a government to consistently generate jobs commensurate to the secondary and tertiary graduates joining the labour market...In any case, expecting a government to offer all the solutions only serves to develop a culture of dependency. How can our education create a mentality of abundance in our students, and not one of scarcity? We must start approaching education as meant for empowerment not employment; for life, not examination. This way even as the student progresses through life she is being filled with the possibility of opportunities that exist for her, and not just the one: “go to school, pass your exams, get to university and get a job”...Among the ways this would be achieved is by appealing to their emotional part of the brain and inculcating character traits which we discover in our adult life as intrinsic to success, yet sadly are not captured in the education curriculum: confidence, high self esteem, belief in self, focus, positive attitude, setting and achieving goals, to name a few; in tandem with this would be entrepreneurship as a way of life...Many are the university and college graduates, with a degree or six-month certificate, who expect the paper earned to work for them...Personal development has been narrowed to only getting another certificate, yet this is only intellectual development, and requires commensurate emotional development to give it substance...More
Entrepreneurship plays significant roles in economic growth and small business success. However, one of the major challenges in the private sector of many developing countries such as Cameroon and in sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of successful business development. At the critical stage of their development path, these countries require businesses that withstand not only the challenges in production, distribution and marketing, but also create employment for a growing population. Although entrepreneurial traits are inherent in some persons, entrepreneurship can be taught to encourage and enable the creation and development of small business. In this essay, Ning Ernestine Nnam x-rays the need and path to nurture entrepreneurship and promote wealth creation through private enterprise and hands-on business development.
Overlooking the Gulf of Guinea from the heart of the old center of Accra is a six-story concrete building that looks perfectly anonymous to the outside world. In fact, one would never suspect that more than a dozen start-up companies are occupying the entire top floor of the building, a meandering 9000 sq feet of office space that includes two IT laboratories, a lecture hall, conference and library facilities and an office for each business. A systems analyst and former KPMG senior consultant, Solomon Asante Dartey heads the Ghana Multimedia Incubator Centre (GMIC) that has been providing space, training and equipment to lift these start-up companies onto the national IT market. “Thanks to Ghana’s education system, there is a lot of talent around”, says Dartey. “We identify that talent and help to build the skills of young people so that they can go out there and get some jobs,” he adds.[See More]
Over 1,000 business and political leaders from 85 countries, including 12 African heads of state or government, are taking part in the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa. At the opening plenary in Dar es Salaam, on May 5, 2010, Jakaya M. Kikwete, President of Tanzania, called for partnerships at the local, bilateral and international level to help overcome the many obstacles faced by African nations. “Africa’s potential is immense in terms of human and natural resources. It is a contradiction that Africa remains poor,” he said in the session entitled "Unlocking Africa's Growth Potential". See also Africa Brainstorming: Turning Vision into Reality.
In the South African wine industry Ntsiki Biyela is something of a rarity. The country's first black female winemaker when she started out six years ago, Biyela has established herself as an award-winning vintner. Biyela grew up in KwaZulu Natal, 800 miles from the vineyards of Stellenbosch where she now practices her craft. She had never even tasted wine before she enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch on a scholarship, but it was there that Biyela earned a degree in oenology -- the science and study of wine. Lessons were taught in the unfamiliar language of Afrikaans and Biyela's classmates were white, but she stuck with her studies. "It was challenging, it really was," Biyela told CNN. "On graduation day I felt like I had climbed Table Mountain. It was really moving."
At least once in your life - maybe even once a week or once a day for that matter - you have fantasized about coming into a lot of money. What would you do if you were worth millions or even billions? Believe it or not there are millionaires and billionaires among us who masquerade as relatively normal, run-of-the-mill people. The dirty little secret of some of the world's wealthiest people is that they rarely act like it. Instead of over-the-top spending, they're busy figuring out how to save and invest to have that much more in the future. It's a habit you might want to consider in order to build up your own little storehouse of cash. Take a peek at some of the most frugal wealthy people in the world......More
Intitulé du poste: Chefs de projets Lieu de travail : Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo
Job Title: Project Managers Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Recruiting Organisation: Godinmartins Consulting acting as Recruitment Consultants Our Clients are a global leader in Accountancy and the provision of business consultancy services to large organisation and governments. To fulfil a current contract in the Democratic Republic of Congo dealing with the restructuring of a large public service organisation, we are looking for experienced Project Managers to lead and manage the various activities and phases of this project. Candidates would be responsible for facilitating effective project management whilst contributing to the development of strategies to build and improve capacity.
Today businesses are appreciating the need for forming strategic alliances for a number of reasons. In a highly competitive market, it makes more sense for businesses to unite in a mutually benefiting synergy. Most of the times where one business is deficient in one resource, another business is endowed with that same resource. It could be that your business has the clientele base but lacks technological knowhow or that you have the technological capacity but no adequate clientele base.
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The potential of Africa is a well kept secret to Chinese and Indian businesspersons. As Africans increasingly fall prey to negative press and lambaste from foreign media, the resultant effect of Africans fleeing and seeing everywhere else green except their own backyard, foreigners are increasingly filling the abandoned service and good provision sectors. From traders in Uganda and Kenya to tour and hotel operators in Tanzania and Swaziland, Chinese and Indian businesspersons are creating unparallel opportunities for themselves where Africans see hopelessness. The amassed capital and created wealth which are repatriated to their home-countries has met the ire of some irate Africans. Notwithstanding, foreign entrepreneurs are scooping supra-normal profits in a continent where everything else is green and the returns-to-investment tower in two digit percentages.
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