Serving to inspire: a call for a new business network.I fail to understand why your circulation is so low here in Nigeria, from where I am writing. Perhaps it is because your publication is only known within elite business circles and can only be purchased from selected newsagents such as within the Ikeja Sheraton Hotel or the members-only Ikoyi Club. Your general readers like myself are, however, loyal die-hards who swear swear v. 1) to declare under oath that one will tell the truth (sometimes "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"). Failure to tell the truth, and do so knowingly, is the crime of perjury. by your Afro-centric ethos e·thos n. The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement: "They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" Anthony Burgess. ; and many of the business professionals to whom I have introduced your magazine have been amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at the high quality of journalism and the relevance of topics treated. I would like to testify To provide evidence as a witness, subject to an oath or affirmation, in order to establish a particular fact or set of facts. Court rules require witnesses to testify about the facts they know that are relevant to the determination of the outcome of the case. that a major Science & Technology Research & Development project (on which I am currently the Project Manager) was greatly enhanced by your detailed reporting on the Nelson Mandela Institution The Nelson Mandela Institution is a private non-governmental organization dedicated to bringing excellence in science and engineering to Sub-Saharan Africa. The primary goal of NMI has been the establishment of the African Institute of Science and Technology (AIST) based on the for Knowledge Building (African Business November 2005 issue) and your unassailable belief in the viability of Africa as an emerging economic powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. . It served to inspire the whole project. I would like to suggest that you initiate a Pan-African Business Network Initiative in association with enthusiastic African media houses, businesses and governments with whom you can package events and forge strategic alliances to spread your sphere of influence and also position mainstream Africa in the 'Fight for Investment Dollars' as your editorial in the August/September issue argued. I could facilitate and coordinate robust Nigerian participation, if needs be. Do keep up the good work--the attainment of our continent's victory is just a matter of time. Tunde Arogunmati Lagos, Nigeria The general thrust of your idea is excellent. An association such as the one you mention will be invaluable in mobilising African intellectual, entrepreneurial en·tre·pre·neur n. A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture. [French, from Old French, from entreprendre, to undertake; see enterprise. and leadership resources. Few, if any countries, have succeeded without an intellectual core to provide direction and feed off. The views of other readers on this issue will be most welcome.--Editor. |
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