Conversations about my African experience, life, politics, economics, entrepreneurship, and everything else my voice has to offer… disguised as a collection of blog posts.
Lately, on the Africa team at Kiva.org, I have been involved in a enlightening conversation with other lenders about such topics as high interest rates for entrepreneurs borrowing from Kiva field partners (lender organizations) to how Americans can learn more about Africa. I just thought I'd fill y'all in.
Competition research. Purposely and perfectly ambiguous. Today, I decided to spend less time developing and administering my Drupal site and more time researching the anatomy of a business plan competition.
I officially started my Business Plan Competition project today. Yes, I know how many of my projects end up, so I don't have extremely high hopes. Nevertheless, I believe there is something inherently different about this one.
So, most of my contacts haven't gotten back to me yet, but as long as "everybody knows someone in Ghana," I'm fine.
So far, during my very interesting internship at the Cook County Public Defenders Office in Chicago, IL, I have met some really interesting people. One of them named Howard, an activist and leader in [...]