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An African City creator Nicole Amarteifio © MisBeee Writes For those of you that have been living under a rock since 2 March 2014, African TV just got sexier with the arrival of YouTube web series ‘An African City’ , ( see MisBeee Writes 18 May 2014 : Reasporans: New African returnees ).  The 10-part series, which was the brainchild of Ghana-born Nicole Amarteifio, charts the experiences of five successful and professional women who return to Ghana from the West to settle. The cast includes journalist Nana Yaa, Harvard graduate and marketing manager Sade, Ngozi, who works for an international development agency, entrepreneur Zainab, and Oxford graduate and lawyer Makena. As with the five leading characters in the show, Nicole was schooled and worked in the US before deciding to return to Ghana. Her inspiration for the web series came from feeling tired about the single story told about Africa and its people, and wanting to challenge these stereotypes....

Caleb Tamfu and Sylvie Aboa-Bannerman © MisBeee Writes Something as simple as watching pedestrians cross a busy road in an African city can help to inform the business decision-making process. It could even mean the difference between operating a failing and successful business. Far-fetched I hear you cry and I might have agreed with you if I had not attended a debate by think-tank the Policy Centre for African People's (PCAP) . The event was geared to helping entrepreneurs do business on the African continent with a Pan-Africa outlook. The idea that knowing your business market may not be new but all too often African cultures and traditions and even expertise, are overlooked because it assumed that the West has all the answers.  African philosophies Whereas no one thinks twice about accepting the application of Western or Asian philosophies as frameworks for doing business, using African practices has yet to have the same gravitas. But th...