The rapid growth of private equity in Africa will be underlined on Tuesday as Kingdom Zephyr, a company that has a policy of investing in mid-sized African companies, announces it has raised $325m for a newly created Pan-African fund.[Financial Times]

Kingdom Zephyr previous involvement in the African private capital market include stakes in:
-Celtel
-United Bank for Africa [ Which is hiring]
-Micro Provident

Nairobi-
Smart Youth Investments Ltd wants to
To enhance Kenyan Youth financial management skills

To popularize stock trading at the Nairobi Stock Exchange

To encourage the culture of thrift or saving



Register here [if attending school in Kenya]

Yaounde-

Klebert, a student of mathematical finance from Cameroon... has for objective  to manage the wealth  of his country more effectively and efficiently.

See also.

Abidjan-

Event scheduled for the 3rd of July.

An 721.com production.

The Emergent African Land Fund will offer investors the opportunity to participate in the growing Sub-Saharan agricultural sector. It will apply modern management disciplines and introduce improved farmland techniques to increase crop yields and investment returns.

The investment focus will be in South Africa. The portfolio will be expanded within Africa to include (but not limited to) countries such as Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland and the DRC.

Register [US citizen excluded]
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Abidjan-

Harlem-

Taste the exquisite cuisine of Executive Chef Justin Hicks of Society Coffee, listen to Nhojj soultry voice while enjoying cocktails.

Saturday June 28th 2008
From 4PM - 10PM
2164 8th Avenue
Bet 116 - 117 street Fredrick Douglas Boulevard
212 828 5775

Bebenoir

Johannesburg-
Vodacom ,a pan-market mobile telecommunications company, that provides cellular service to an estimated 30.2 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo




Editor's note: Vodacom is the result of a 50/50 partnership between British Vodafone[ Lse:VOD;Nyse:VOD;FWB:VOD] and South African Telkom[Nyse:TKG;JSE:J653]Related articles

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Le Quartier Français is an exclusive boutique hotel situated in the heart of the Franschhoek Valley, Cape Winelands.

During your stay, explore the village's quaint shops, galleries, the chocalaterie, chacuterie or enjoy wine tasting, fly-fishing, horse riding and golfing. Eating is not a problem in Franschhoek - the gourmet capital of South Africa-abundant with great cafes and restaurants and more than 40 wineries to visit.


Online Booking

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Harare-

Trust, a Zimbabwean student of mathematical finance, expresses the new confidence that has come from his studies at AIMS. Now his desire is to help his field of study grow in Africa and to help push his country forward.

Addis-Abeba-

"Roses production has been chosen in Ethiopia in order to revive the country's economy and counter unemployment in rural regions. "(F. Berruyer)



Via France24

Conference[18-20 June]-

Card Expo West Africa 2008 agenda[Not all points included]:

Payment and National Economic Development

Perspectives on Retail Card Payment System

Preventing, Detecting and Managing Fraud - Implementing Tools and Practices for Success

Optimizing your card business

Retail Card Strategy to bank the Unbanked

Key factors for a successful POS deployment in Africa

Register here


Proud sponsor of the event are: Naira.net,Supercard Nigeria, and Chams.

Lagos-

Even if the event has already passed, we point you to The Future Nigeria awards.Let's look forward to the 2009 edition.
The Future...” is a celebration of youth and achievement – it honors young Nigerian achievers between the ages of 18 and 31...

In different sectors – from business, through the entertainment industry up to advocacy – young people are beginning to take charge and to take over. A revolution has taken place, a positive one, and what we are doing is accelerating this change, to encourage it, and to sustain it. Looking away will be a dis-service...

The Claymore/BNY Mellon Frontier Markets ETF (the "Fund") seeks investment results that correspond generally to the performance, before the Fund’s fees and expenses, of an equity index called The Bank of New York Mellon New Frontier DR Index.

The Fund will normally invest at least 80% of its total assets in securities of issuers from Frontier Market countries (whether directly or through ADRs or GDRs). The Fund, using a low cost “passive” or “indexing” investment approach, will seek to replicate, before fees and expenses, the performance of the Frontier Index.

The Index tracks the performance of companies from countries that are defined as the “Frontier Market, that trade on the London Stock Exchange (“LSE”), New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), American Stock Exchange (“AMEX”) and Nasdaq Stock Market (“NASDAQ”)

The index construction include[but not limited to]: Ghana,Kenya,Egypt,Malawi,Mauritius,Morocco,Nigeria,Tunisia,Zimbabwe,

Image via WikipediaAfrica has lower inflation; higher foreign exchange reserves...more importantly, real incomes are rising and Africans are getting richer at an unprecedented rate.

In 1997-2002, real GDP per capita rose at a rate of 1.8 per cent per annum, this was up to 4.6 per cent in 2007. At 1.8 per cent per annum it takes 39 years for real incomes to double, but at 4.6 per cent per annum real incomes double within 15 years...China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa have been substantial investors in sectors as diverse as mining, oil, banking, retail and telecommunications.

New technologies are throwing up new business models...city dwellers are texting airtime back which is then redeemed for cash.

Ignoring Africa today is like not investing in emerging markets in the 1990s, south east Asia in the 1970s and 1980s and Japan in the 1950s.[Financial Times]

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San Francisco-

"Underneath all the changes - business becoming increasingly distributed, users becoming more knowledgeable, old industry models collapsing, and everything and everybody becoming networked - is one fundamental phenomenon: decentralization.At Supernova,we bring together business, government, and technology thought leaders to understand how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world.”


Who should attend this conference[16-18 June]:
Technology Executives
* Business Strategists
* Entrepreneurs
* Venture Capitalists
* Technologists
* Policy Makers
* Investment Bankers
* Service Providers
* Industry Media and Analysts

Register here [ conference is June 16-18 2008]

New York-
Attendees to the just closed conference learned to :

Identify and acquire potential new brands or properties.

Strike deals with licensors and manufacturers for exclusive product development.

Explore current trends via movie studios, brand owners, and licensors in the U.S. and international markets.

Educate yourself about licensing at the Licensing University Conference Program.




Topics on the agenda included but where not limited to:

The new media licensing revolution

Working with licensing agents

Getting your brand ready for licensing

The new consumer, the new retail and licensing in the new world

Essential trends in corporate licensing

Innovative promotion and creative public relation

License valuation and royalties rate trends

The legal side of licensing




Could not attend that conference, Get ready for brand licensing Europe 2008

Cape Town-

The first Pecha Kucha Night Cape Town will be taking place Thursday 19 June at What if the World Gallery.

Pecha Kucha Night is a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public.The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system:
Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a platform where can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor[ consider reading Wallpaper]

The sound of conversation has spread virally to over 100 cities across the world.African cities include for now,Cape Town and Lagos.
Harare,Abidjan,Tunis,Dakar,Nairobi,Ouagadougou,Niamey,Kinshasa,Kigali with their vibrant scene should follow suit.

Global cities with proeminent Afropolitan population include,New York,Paris,Madrid,DC,Atlanta,London,Amsterdam,Dublin,Stockhlom,Marseille,Toronto,Miami,Los Angeles,Sao Paulo.


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