AfriMonitor is a new venture aimed at aggregating data about growing African markets….

After many years of working on products with African culture as a central subject, I am again launching a product which I think is missing in the marketplace. Throughout my years as an entrepreneur, I have had to conduct endless market research and have found a serious lack of information about the African market. While I understand that the market is still very young, I feel that to help it grow adn to encourage more entrepreneurs to develop products to help it grow, a product like AfriMonitor is necessary. While I still write about African business and culture trends at Annans Chronicles, much of the indepth analysis of trends will be posted here on AfriMonitor. To read more about direction AfriMonitor will be developing towards in the next few months visit the About us page.

I am launching AfriMonitor as a beta for now to get some feedback and begin getting some information to those who can make use of it. We are working hard to get you much of the information which will make this site most useful so check back often or better yet, subscribe to AfriMonitor’s rss feed or sign up for automatic email updates. For now the News tabs currently contain aggregated content from all the major news engines and is updated many times a day. As you can see we are also making our first trend brief “Exploring ChinAfrica” available as a free download in the Intelligence section. And we’ve developed and interactive timeline of China-Africa relations for those who want to more information.

In the next few months we’ll be adding more insights and reports and featuring interviews with newsmakers. We’ll also be updating our Resources and Events sections soon. Please feel free to submit a resource or event for inclusion in our directory or just contact us with any comments/suggestions.

- G. Kofi Annan
Principal
Annansi LLC

AfriMonitor.com serves as a market research portal for the Africa-focused global business audience. The website aggregates pertinent information about African business, consumers, economy, companies, and products, as well as information on African marketing and advertising trends. AfriMonitor provides an overview of African consumer and product markets so individuals, agencies, and corporations can discover new opportunities and make the right business decisions.

Sections Overview

• AfriMonitor rss feed highlights topics and news about African marketing and advertising.
• They aggregate top news about Africa in the All News area. The China-Africa and India-Africa news sub-sections focus on news related to the growing relationship between Africa, China, and India.
• Their Intelligence products include information databases, statistics, market reports, insight briefs, influencer and consumer profiles and are designed to help businesses and individuals understand the growing African product and consumer market.
• Their Events calendar lists the most important meetings, workshops, and conferences for anyone looking to meet and connect with African professionals.
• The Resources area holds the growing database of the most important resources for research on the African market.

AfriMonitor is a product of Annansi LLC, a brand strategy and product development firm for emerging markets, with a specialty in Africa-related projects. Annansi LLC provides customized research and strategy solutions for clients across a wide range of industries.

About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

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