Craig Chirinda: The Zimbabwean Multibillion Dollar Deal-Broker
May 5th, 2007 | Published in America, Business and Entrepreneurship, Diaspora, Links, Zimbabwe | 1 Comment
Who is [tag]Craig Chirinda[/tag]?
Craig promotes trade and investment into the southern Africa region, so far he’s tucked in some US$4 billion in leads, financing deals, and joint ventures. He is from Zimbabwe and just in his early twenties!
Benin has some words with him on his blog via this post: http://beninmwangi.com/2007/05/05/on-craig-chirinda-what-would-you-do-with-4-billion-usd/.
Here is an excerpt of the interview:
Benin: Based upon your experiences are there any obstacles that a potential investor into Africa should be aware of before moving forward? If so, how have you handled these hurdles?
Craig: Things in Africa move a slower pace than they are used to, so they should be patient. They should make sure that they have lobbying machinery (in the form of chiefs, politicians, local business people and religious leaders), that they deploy to accelerate the pace of a transaction. If they don’t have the lobbying machinery, the transaction just won’t happen!
May 5th, 2007 at 11:00 am (#)
Imnakoya:
I’m sorry for not staying too much in touch lately. When you have a momenmt I have a few questions for you, eye?
Thanks too for commenting and everything. As far as the pic, I just have to respect what someone is willing to provide, you know? I was happy that he provided what he did.