In the war of the sexes, I am firmly in the camp of the female of the species.
I was brought up by my dear mother (God bless her!) who is now 86 - and who like many Ghanaian women made enormous sacrifices to do so.
May I humbly suggest that you use your new online forum to encourage
Ghanaian women in the Diaspora to have big dreams - and set up
businesses wherever in the world they live?
Money talks - and the world indeed does often listen attentively to those that have it.
Above all, those lucky women who have it, or know where to source it
relatively cheaply for projects, can create much-needed jobs for the
teeming youth in our homeland Ghana.
As my widow's-mite-contribution to your forum, I'd be happy to place my
personal network (free of charge; ditto pester-free) at their disposal -
and also share ideas with them to enable them leverage the fair-trade
sector for various niche markets, they might be interested in going
into.
For example, some of the best dark chocolate in the world is
manufactured by the Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) at the port city of
Tema.
Surely, there are enough brainy Ghanaian businesswomen in the UK, the
EU, the US and Canada, who can convince supermarkets in the above named
nations to have their own-brand chocolates manufactured by the CPC -
and imported from Ghana as fair-trade chocolate by the likes of Tesco
and Walmart?
Yet another example of a business opportunity for them: Ryanair's CEO
Michael O'Leary has an intense personal rivalry with Easyjet founder,
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Well, as it happens, Sir Stelios is setting up a low-cost carrier in Africa known as Fastjet.
Is there no Ghanaian businesswoman savvy enough to convince Antrak Air's
Alhaji Asuma Banda to join her in linking up with Ryanair to set up a
rival pan-African carrier to compete with Fastjet - to offer safe and
affordable point-to-point flights between major cities in what some
describe as the international aviation world's last frontier, Africa?
Aside from lucrative intra-Africa low-cost flights, imagine the money to
be made by such a joint-venture from affordable flights between Africa
and the continents of Europe and North America by such a low-cost
carrier, ladies.
Ghana needs an internet-based insurance company.
Why do Ghanaian businesswomen overseas not convince internet-based
insurance companies wherever they live in the Diaspora, to come to
Ghana, in a joint-venture with a financial services sector entity here,
like the UT Group for example?
Finally, through your agency, I would be happy to introduce (free of
charge!) any Ghanaian female entrepreneurs out there with big-ticket
projects (such as: building a new bridge across the Volta River as a
private public partnership (PPP) turnkey project; building a railway
line from Accra to Pagaa) to a Dutch private equity financing
facilitator I know, who will facilitate private equity financing for
their dream-projects (from US$20 millions upwards, ie).
Incidentally, the Divestiture Implementation Committee (DIC) has many
Nkrumah-era factories available for sale that need tens of millions of
US dollars to revamp them. Opportunity beckons. Power to Ghanaian
feminist women worldwide, say I!
Tel: 027 745 3109.
Email: peakofi.thompson@gmail.com
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment