
The way forward.
I’ve been away from blogging for a while. 2011 was a challenging year to be an entrepreneur in Liberia and there just wasn’t any time left over for blogging. I hope to change this in 2012, starting now.
We just launched a new website for one of our ventures: www.westafricaconsultancy.com
We’ve been doing independent management and business consultancy for a couple of years now and always treated it as a side activity. Well, the side activity has grown enough in importance that we think it merits its own brand and organization, that’s why we launched West-Africa Consultancy Services/PHI. We’re able to offer a wide array of services from hands on managerial problems (HR services, logistics etc.) to business consultancy (business planning, feasibility studies, impact analysis, financing etc.) and investment services (analysis, evaluation, management).
It’s going to be an exciting year in West-Africa, while the U.S. and Europe is struggling on, Africa in general is slated for healthy growth. West-Africa in particular is projected for a very rapid growth and we’re likely to see a lot of new business here as the elections of 2011 wind down and everyone gets back to the business of business.
I’m going to be blogging over at www.westafricaconsultancy.com on the topic of business in West-Africa. Since I’m resident in Liberia the topics will naturally center around this nation, its active businesses and great investment opportunities. I’ll be posting links to the blog here, and as time allows I’ll try to intersperse the linked posts with actual posts on this blog.
The first blog post can be found here: http://www.westafricaconsultancy.com/article-sub-saharan-africa-set-for-2012-boom/
This post describes the end of year activities and visit by the U.S. ambassador and UNMIL SRSG to the ADA/LAP farm in Foya, Liberia (West Africa). It is the last of three blog posts describing activities I undertook in 2009 and posted here as I’ve closed down an older blog where these photos were posted….
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This post describes the first rice harvest of ADA/LAP in Foya, Liberia (West Africa). It is the second of three blog posts describing activities I undertook in 2009 and posted here as I’ve closed down an older blog where these photos were posted. The photos are old (courtesy of the PRO of ADA/LAP) but the…
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I’ve closed down an older photo blog and will transfer some photos over to this blog in 3 posts. The photos are old (and comes courtesy of the PRO of ADA/LAP), the text is new. This is the first post which describes my involvement in the first planting of rice at the ADA/LAP farm in…
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While I spent the weekend in Monrovia catching up on 3 weeks of minimal sleep, my stalwart business partner Joe went up to the LibSwe Cocoa nursery to see how things were coming along. Unlike me (a lazy swine) who prefer a car to carry myself and my portable office, Joe (a cheap bastard) takes…
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While up in Sanoyie I took some photos of traditional palm oil manufacturing. Oil of the “oil palm” fruit is the main edible oil used in Liberia (along with many other African countries) and these kinds of small manufacturing sites can be found all over the country. In Liberia it is with oil as with…
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While I was sipping a cold drink and having a meeting on a new business plan in Monrovia, Joe and William continued to sweat up in Sanoyie. The following photos are taken with Joe’s cell phone so they lack somewhat in quality. During the second day everyone was back from the market and Joe had…
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Our cocoa seeds, in freshly harvested cocoa pods, arrived by air from Ghana last Thursday (17 Feb 2011) and after 2 hours of filling in papers at the airport we finally got them out. On our way back to Monrovia from the airport in the late afternoon uncertainty arose as to how quickly we would…
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I went up to Sanoiye (Bong county, 3+ hours outside Monrovia) this weekend to look at some land. We’re starting up a small company for cocoa production and for that you need a plantation and for that you need some land. I managed to take ten photos during the day which must be considered a…
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From a world rich in contrast comes my first blog entry. This entry is also the first in my Gloating-about-the-weather series. This being my first camera and first stumbling attempts in the noble art of photography I welcome any technical comments and pointers on the photos posted here (though not about the non-horizontal horizon in…
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