Services

Consulting, Research and International Business Facilitators

African-American Business Network has developed and established hassle-free process and procedure to facilitate smooth commerce.

Consulting, research and due diligence aimed to identify genuine businesses: investors, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers, as well as connecting and facilitating growth and opportunities.

Corporate services: such as secretarial, meetings and events, public relations and product marketing organizing.

African-American Business Network also research and link genuine promoters of corporate social responsibility (donors) to genuine organizations working for civil societies and worthy causes in the African continent.

Key component of our services include field visits to inspect/assess and report back on the findings: genuineness of business entity and existence of products, prevailing circumstances and reality on the ground.

Using our historical background and visceral knowledge of the African terrain, we are able to penetrate, research and physically identify genuine business merchants, as well as decode scams.

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Example of need for our services

Let’s take Nigerian crude oil business as an example.

Nigeria produces Bonny Light Crude Oil which the whole world demands at the moment. According to sources, Nigeria is producing about 26.5 million barrels of this oil everyday at the moment, and that is being sold by government authorized bodies and their agents. There are so many scammers parading around as government authorized bodies and their agents. There is also lots of corruption among government officials managing the sale of Nigeria crude oil. There are also a lot of corruptions among the banking sector, law enforcement, defense and security agencies in Nigeria.

A lot of prospective buyers have lost lots of money to these scammers. However, despite the fact that there are lots of scammers and fraudsters in Nigerian crude oil business, there are still many genuine sellers and their agents selling Nigeria oil by following Nigerian government established standard process and procedure. A lot of buyers purchase crude oil from these genuine sellers without any hitch, without paying any bribe-money and without loosing any money to scammers.

Sifting through to identify, locate and connect the genuine sellers and their agents that follow the official procedure in buying/selling of crude oil are some of the key examples of our services.

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Examples of Client Services

Example 1: Our service was recently sought by African state governor that wants to attract western investors to his state. The African state governor wanted the following: investors to mine newly-discovered natural resources in his state, investment in industries, road and building construction, to dredging and cleaning of lakes and streams, building hotels and preservation of ancient caves for tourism.

Example 2: We recently helped another community in Africa to network a state government to settle communal leadership dispute apparently orchestrated by cronies of the governor. Similar disputes when left unresolved tend to end up in destruction of lives and properties. Following our intervention, the state governor called his cronies to order and peace returned to the community.

Example 3: Agents to over 30 US, European and Russian oil refineries who do not want to waste precious time with mere speculators and touts, recently approached us to research genuine sellers of Light Crude Oil in African countries, that: 1) actually have crude oil to sell, 2) will not along the line ask them to pay bribe to anyone in order to purchase crude oil through them from any African countries, 3) will sell at Brent Platts (government official) price, and 4) will put up 2% Performance Bond. The oil agents also want big buyers of diesel, aviation kerosene, 50/50 propane and butane mix from African nations.

Example 4: Community development project which include construction of roads, local markets, community centers, business zones/districts, health centers, lights, water, sewage and sanitation, etc. in a west African village. African-American Business Network was contacted to leverage local and international resources to the projects.

Example 5: Our service was recently sought by a local authority and business in African nation in establishment of garbage removal and recycling program. Through our referral, a firm undertook a study of the project geographical zone and determined that apart from few items such as heavy-duty items such as: metal crushers, compressors and rollers, most of other items would be obtained locally.

Example 6: A high-ranking African politician/businessman who wants to migrate to one of developed and stable western countries with his family and over 5 million US Dollars to invest in the economy. This high-ranking African politician/businessman came with 4 major referral requests: 1) a reputable financial investor/advisor, 2) a grass roots business development firm, 3) a reputable immigration law firm, and 4) African immigrant socio-cultural adjustment consultant.

Example 7: An African pastor of a new-generation church wants to establish a branch of his church in United States. He wants a detail/comprehensive Church Development Plan with major bench-marks and target dates. The pastor needed our assistance in preparing full development plan, from Concept to Reality (A to Z) in church establishment/development in accordance with laws of United States.

Example 8: Business men and women, especially general commodity traders from African countries do frequently contact us requesting assistance in researching, purchasing and shipment of various goods to their destinations. This is almost frequent routine.