| Beers of the World |
| 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! Read the piece. |
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| eShopAfrica in National Geographic |
In the September 2005 special edition of National Geographic on Africa
eShopAfrica was mentioned:
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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.
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Fortune Small Business Feb 05
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"Coffins to Die For"
In Ghana what you do in life determines the style of your burial. The Ga tribe, located in the country's capital
Accra, models coffins to reflect their occupants hobbies and occupations from peacocks for bird lovers to airplanes
for pilots. Now five-year-old exporter eShopAfrica.com is giving the burial vessels new life aboveground in the
living rooms of Europe and America. British-born founder Cordelia Salter-Nour 47, spent two decades in Africa in
technology development before moving to Rome, where she decided to start a company that would give Ghanaian
artisans an escape from exploitive practices. &One artist we use, Samuel Naah, paid off his apprentice fees with
two commissions from us. Now he has his own business,& says Salter-Nour. Prices range from $125 for
desktop chests to $1250 for six foot models. In 2004, eShopAfrica.com's sales for all its art exports - including
drums, textiles and jewellery- topped $50,000. - SUE KARLIN
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Playboy Jun 04
FATAL DISTRACTION - GOING IN STYLE
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| Crazy caskets cheer up the grimmest of reapers. If you sell shoes for a living, you may
as well step into the hereafter in a giant wingtip. At least that's the thinking in Ghana, where a coffin is the last word in style.
Fifty years ago* a Ghanaian angler shipped off in a seven foot fish and started a trend;
today there's an endless variety of silly, folk-arty things on the market. Cabdrivers are buried in wooden taxis,
preachers in Bible-shaped boxes and suds lovers in beer bottles. Want your own? eShopAfrica.com will put a giant
reminder of mortality in your living room for a mere $1000. |
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| * According to the book
Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa by Thierry Secretan the thematic coffin tradition started earlier than this |
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FHM Magazine Jun 04
COFFINS - GETAWAY CASKETS
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 All the fun of a funeral in Ghana without ever having to live there.
No-one knows where we go when we die. If it's LA though, you're going to need a set of wheels. Thanks to coffin-makers in Ghana, the dead
can now take to the afterlife in a hand-carved Ferrari, Subaru or whatever they fancy.
"Ghana's Ga people bury their dead in coffins that represent the life of the deceased," says Cordelia Salter-Nour
of eShopAfrica.com, the business that's bringing Ghana's best to the West. The designs come in full, half and
table top models. "Half size is a children's coffin," Salter-Nour says.
But do Westerners want to spend eternity in a giant phone? "Sure they do," Salter-Nour insists.
&One customer wants to be buried in a peacock. But she ordered a half size, so she'll have to squash unless she's small." |
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| See picture of the Ferrari coffin and the peacock in the
Coffin Gallery |
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Boating Magazine Oct 03
BOATING FOR ETERNITY
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We know boating is your life - obviously - so spend the hereafter in a coffin built to resemble your
boat. Morbid? Yes. Better than anything your family will pick out for you? Absolutely.
In the tradition of the Ga people of Ghana, who are buried in a coffin that reflects how they lived,
eShopAfrica.com will build you a specially carved coffin for $1,000. Just send the company a picture of your
boat and your final resting place will be completed in four to six weeks. If you're the consummate angler,
you can choose one of the many fish styles from the eShopAfrica.com's current roster of 22 decorated coffins and
chests or send them a picture of your 1,000 pound trophy blue marlin and they will carve to order.
Now you can truly sleep with the fishes. |
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| Development Gateway |
| From Africa to Argentina, case studies of handicrafts groups using the Internet for sales and marketing are showcased this month as some of the leading "success stories" for small enterprise e-business worldwide.
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| Government Technology International |
| eShopAfrica Eager to Break Into The Global Market. eShopAfrica.com is a Ghanaian fair trade e-commerce website that sources arts and crafts direct from traditional African artisans. Part of their challenge is to prove that e-commerce can work for Africa. However, their target markets are far away and they need help accessing them.
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| Digital Dividend |
| As late November slips into early December, we find the holidays upon us. In recognition of the "season of giving", the Digital Dividend team has prepared an ICT-inspired gift guide.
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| BBC online news Feb 03 |
| Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their wares to collectors on the other side of the globe, thanks to...
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| Wall Street Journal, May 02, Michael Phillips |
| ... A business called eShopAfrica.com sells Africana online. Products include hand-carved Ga coffins
that are shaped like airplanes, shoes and howitzers, all designed to reflect the earthly interests of the recently deceased.
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| Wall Street Journal, Jul 02, Michael Phillips |
| ...Cordelia Salter-Nour, who runs an African-goods retail Web site called eShopAfrica.com here,
recently approached Mr. Millet about displaying his products online...
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| Worldbank |
| By offering the work of African artisans for sale on the Internet eShopAfrica.com aims to put money and
prestige back into the traditional African craft sector.
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| Greenstar.org - Sweatshops and Butterflies |
article for Sustainable Development International
eShopAfrica.com exports arts from Africa, to help traditional artisans make a decent living. Young people move to the towns, but
end up unemployed or homeless because they don't have urban skills. eShopAfrica puts money and prestige back into their lives,
building the value of their traditional skills.
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| BBC Top Gear Magazine, Mar 03 |
Box-sters
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A few years ago, we featured the carpenters in Accra who create bespoke conveyances for that final journey. The lion
used to be the most respected coffin, but the symbol of choice is now... Read more |
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| Kayatana.com |
| eShopAfrica.com attempts to bridge the digital divide which has prevented many African artisans or co-operatives to sell their products directly over the internet, empowering them to improve their lives and build a sustainable business.
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| Digital Dividend - ICTs and Handicrafts |
| eShopAfrica.com sells arts and crafts from Ghana, and encourages their artisans to learn Internet skills in order to help them develop their own design ideas.
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| Techempower.net - technology empowerment network |
| eShopAfrica.com is a fair trade eCommerce web site that sources arts and crafts direct from traditional African artisans. They are a Ghanaian company based in Accra, and part of their challenge is to prove that eCommerce can work for Africa.
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| Politiken - Danish newspaper |
| Afrikansk netsalg: Afrikanske kunsthåndværkere er begyndt via nettet at sælge deres værker til
samlere andre steder på kloden. Read more |
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| Kayatana - Highlighing small projects that are making a difference in Sustainable Development |
| eShopAfrica.com attempts to bridge the digital divide which has prevented many African artisans or co-operatives to sell their products directly over the internet, empowering them to improve their lives and build a sustainable business.
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| E Marketing 3rd edition by Judy Strauss, Adel El-Ansary and Raymond Frost |
 Practitioner Perspective: Ecommerce from Ghana. Although we are based in Ghana, we are marketing
to the rest of the world so the fact that credit cards are hardly used in Africa does not affect us. Until there is... Read more |
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| Uitvaart - Ghana globaliseert |
| Een schoen, een vis, een auto of een vliegtuig van een luchtvaart-maatschappij naar keuze; een doodskist in
deze vorm is nu te bestellen via internet vanuit Ghana. In de buurt van de hoofdstad Accra worden ze gebouwd en daar zijn ze
onderdeel van de begrafenisceremonie bij de Ga-stam. Read more |
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| Security IT world - Africa confronts cyber crime |
| Law enforcement agencies and ISPs (Internet service providers) in Africa are trying to stem a wave of cybercrime originating from some parts of the continent.
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| An Aspect of African Capitalism 2002 |
| A business called eShopAfrica sells Africana online. Products include hand-carved Ga coffins that are shaped
like airplanes, shoes and howitzers, all designed to reflect the earthly interests of the recently deceased.
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| African Crafts Diploma |
| Which two segments is eShopAfrica.com targetting and what segmentation variables have been used?
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| African Crafts Certificate |
| eShopAfrica.com is targeting consumers who want highly unusual products. Explain what is meant by the
‘bundle of benefits’ that products provide for customers and how this affects perceived value in the customer’s eyes.
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| Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes by David Fick |
 Entrepreneurship in Africa is a study of those entrepreneurs who have achieved success, wealth, and fame by
organizing and directing a business undertaking in Africa. It is a story about successful entrepreneurs who have assumed risk in
pursuit of profit, who have tried to conform to ethical business standards and who have tried to contribute to the economic
development and improve the natural environment and the education, health, and welfare of their community and nation. Find out more. |
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| Balancing Act Africa newsletter |
| eShopAfrica.com sells top quality African manufactured goods in bulk. It is based in Ghana and is using
the internet to create a larger global market for African products. Its owners say: The world has been told to buy more from
Africa - we want to help them.
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| Computer and Technology News, Ghana Apr 2001 |
| Africa's Electronic shopping mall launched An African art and craft ecommerce website has been launched in Accra. The website eShopAfrica.com is a business to business site with the objective of selling indigenous African manufactured products online to retailers and resellers around the world.
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| Ghana link |
| An African Electronic Shopping Mall primarily to cater for African art & craft was recently launched in Accra. eShopAfrica.com is a business to business ecommerce site which basically is tailored-measured to the selling of indigenous African manufactured products online to retailers and resellers worldwide.
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| eShopAfrica.com made 'lead' company |
| AMEX, a USAID project designed to increase non-traditional exports from Africa, has made eShopAfrica.com a 'lead' company. It has chosen us an example of how ecommerce can be used to achieve their objectives and wants other businesses to follow our example. They are giving
us valuable and timely support in building up our business fast - here are some of the reasons why eShopAfrica was chosen:
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| Press Release February 2001 |
| eShopAfrica.com brings you top quality African manufactured goods in bulk. We are
based in Ghana, West Africa and are using the Internet to create a larger global market
for African products. The world has been told to buy more from Africa - we want to help
them. Read more |
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