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| Skoll Forum 2007 |
Cordelia Salter-Nour, Founder of eShopAfrica.com went to the Skoll Forum 2007 in the Said Business School, Oxford University, UK.
The Forum was attended by social entrepreneurs, foundations, observers, academics and the media.
Find out what it was like. |
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| catWALK! the World |
 Find out about catWALK! the World - Fashion Fighting Hunger, an initiative of FightHunger: Walk the World a division of the UN World Food Programmme.
There are currently 350 million hungry children in the world but there is enough food in the world for them to eat. What is needed are the resources and will to end child hunger and the fashion industry are joining the fight against hunger. Find out more. |
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| Cheers! |
| In the April/May 07 edition of Beers of the World magazine our beer coffins scored a hit. The piece reminds us that Homer Simpson dreams of being buried in a beer coffin - Homer - eShopAfrica can make your dream come true! See the original |
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| Peace Corps visits eShopAfrica |
In March 07 eShopAfrica were happy to welcome a group of Peace Corp volunteers and their counterparts to the office in Accra. Although the electricity was off for part of the time (a common problem these days) it was great to meet everyone and we look forward to staying in touch. |
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| Copy your pooch |
If you really love your pet have them immortalised by having a thematic box made that looks like them. All you have to
do is to email us a photo. Find out more.
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| The Economist 10 Mar 2005 |
Our Nokia Mobile Phone coffin was mentioned in the Technology Quarterly of the Economist in a piece about
the sprituality of mobile phones.
Read this piece.
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| Thierry Henry's Clone |
See a clone of the top soccer player Thierry Henry in the Football Clones
section or visit the Gallery where you can find many other interesting photos.
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| Fortune Small Business Magazine |
eShopAfrica.com was featured in the February 2005 issue of Fortune Small Business Magazine.
Read this piece.
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| Our famous African coffins... |
One of our products that has attracted a lot of attention are the the Ga Coffins or Fantasy chests.
The Ga live around Accra the capital of Ghana
and believe that you should be buried in a coffin that reflects how you
earned your living. See some stunning work of these talented craftsmen in our
Coffin Gallery or order your own special one (as a work of art or as a real coffin!) in the
Ga Coffins
section. How do you earn your living?
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| eShopAfrica in National Geographic |
In the September 2005 special edition of National Geographic on Africa
eShopAfrica was mentioned:
eShopAfrica.com This Ghana based fair trade website helps
African craftspeople build their businesses by offering products ranging from kente cloth
and other textiles to custom-made coffins. Profits help pay for education and health care.
See the original.
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| eShopAfrica in Silicon Valley |
| eShopAfrica joined Santa Clara University's Center for Science
Technology and Society's Global Social Benefit Incubator Class of 2005 during the first two weeks of August. Social
entrepreneurs were
selected from all over the world and given intensive training from leaders in the field on how to scale up their
ventures effectively and sustainably in order to benefit humanity. Find out more
or visit the Global Social Benefit Incubator
website.
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| BBC Focus on Africa Magazine |
| Cordelia Salter-Nour, founder and webmaster of eShopAfrica collects
antique trade beads and has an interest in the history of the bead trade in Africa. She had a piece published about
Kofridua bead market, one of the biggest regional bead markets in Ghana, in the Jan-Mar 05 edition of BBC Focus
on Africa Magazine.
Read this piece.
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| Corporte gift success with NAMIC |
eShopAfrica.com supplied Kente cloth bookmarks and Bolga Tanga baskets as gifts for for the 11th Anniversary Fundraiser of
NAMIC (National Association For Multi-Ethnicity In Communications)
held in New York in December 2005. The event was attended by a number of celebrities and major cable companies.
The guest and celebrity "swag bags"
received praise in MulitChannel News the trade publication for the cable industry. They were
coordinated by ItsInTheBagInc.com a company that
specialises in interesting and innovative corporate gifts.
Next time you're organising an event why don't you order some of our products? It will say
more about you and your company than any biro or plastic wallet could - and our
artisans will truly appreciate your custom. Email us for ideas or a quote.
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| A Maasai at the Olympics? |
Is this a real Maasai warrior or is it a statue? And what was a Maasai doing at the Greek Olympics?
Find out the full story.
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| What's it like to work for eShopAfrica? |
| Deborah Jones, a graduate student from the UK volunteered to work for
eShopAfrica during the summer of 2004. Find out what she thought. |
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| eShopAfrica finalist in "Global Junior Challenge" |
eShopAfrica was a finalist in the "Global Junior Challenge" a competition that
is dedicated to all young people, from school children to teenagers and youths taking their first steps on the job market.
It is open to cities, institutions, local authorities, businesses, NGOs, communities and individual citizens and all
those who are interested or involved in child and youth education and training, and more broadly, in helping in the construction
of a more inclusive society.
One of the aims of eShopAfrica is to put money and prestige back into the African artisan sector. Many of our artisans
express a wish to be able to give their children a decent standard of living and education so that they remain with the family and
inherit the skills instead of moving away to urban areas. Visit the Global Junior Challenge
website |
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| eShopAfrica & Development Gateway |
 Cordelia Salter-Nour, founder and webmaster of eShopAfrica.com was
invited by the World Bank's Development Gateway to take part in a workshop held in Tanzania. The Tanzania Country Gateway
who was hosting the event was focussing on the use of ICTs to promote SME development.
In a live video conference link between Rome, Washington and Dar El Salem, participants in
the workshop in Tanzania listened first to a presentation on e-business by
James Hanna of the World Bank's Private Sector Development Cluster for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region.
Following this Cordelia talked about the challenges and successes eShopAfrica has had in setting up an African based ecommerce
web site. Practical issues such as credit card processing, fraud, shipping, customs and marketing were discussed. The presentation
was followed by a question and answer session. Visit the Tanzania Country Gateway site. |
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| Finalist in ICT Stories competition |
 The story of eShopAfrica called "Hand made in Africa" written by Cordelia Salter-Nour
was one of the finalists in the IICD 2003 ICT Stories (Tony Zeitoun awards). Visit the IICD website or read
"Hand-made in Africa" |
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| Finalist in the SMME Awards |
eShopAfrica was chosen as a finalist in the Information and Technology sector of the 2003 SMME Awards organised by the
Africa Centre for Investment Analysis in partnership with the University of Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa.
The competition is designed to showcase the best of African small and medium sized business entrepreneurs.
Visit their website |
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| Tech Awards 04 |
eShopAfrica was nominated for the Tech Awards 2004 that awards innovators
who use technology to benefit humanity. Visit the
Tech Awards website. |
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| Social Awareness Week, Marymount International School, Rome Italy |
| Cordelia Salter-Nour talks to the students about "A Positive View of Africa" |
| Transcript and reading list in Word format |
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| Fashion with a Conscience Jan 2003, Moda Mania, Rome Italy. |
| Cordelia Salter-Nour of eShopAfrica.com gave a seminar on how to
make ethical design decisions by incorporating arts and crafts from Africa. Find out more about
Moda Mania or see a photograph of the
Fashion with a Conscience seminar.
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| Stockholm Challenge |
eShopAfrica was a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge 2002, a global competition that looks for
innovation and originality in the use of ICT. Visit the
Stockholm Challenge website. |
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| Balancing Act Africa |
Cordelia Salter-Nour, founder and webmaster of eShopAfrica also covers ecommerce issues for Balancing Act Africa, a weekly
newsletter that covers digital issues in Africa. If you want to keep up with how ICT is affecting Africe subscribe now
by sending an email to info@balancingact-africa.com or visit the
Balancing Act Africa website. |
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A total of 104 entries from three international schools in Rome
were received. The entries were great!!! The judging and award ceremony was part of the Africa Week celebrations and was held at
FAO in Rome in partnership with AFRAM. Find our more and see the 
Also as part of the Africa week celebrations, eShopAfrica put on an exhibition of antique trade beads collected in Africa. These
beads tell a story of how African taste in beads fuelled the European bead industry challenging glass makers to
new levels of creativity. Some of the beads on display were made in Venice over five hundred years ago.
Cordelia Salter-Nour also made a presentation to accompany the bead exbibition. 
Trish Graham, eShopAfrica's Product Sourcer gave a presentation at the Sustainable Resources Conference 2003 called
"Finding New Markets for Traditional Skills". The focus of this talk was the great variety and scope of
beautiful arts and crafts there are in Africa and how these traditional skills can be brought to life again by finding them
new markets. See the 
A look at the reality of running an ecommerce website from Africa. Although ecommerce is supposed to offer big
opportunities for Africa, the reality is very different. There are many barriers to entry for the African entrepreneur and
many "old world" barriers still operate on the Internet. This paper has been widely used as a resource as to the
state of ecommerce in Africa today.