Whether you are a foreign entrepreneur seeking to operate in Africa or an African entrepreneur seeking to operate outside Africa, Africonexion will help you navigate cultural barriers and traps to enable you to pursue your dreams. You might be a company with a culturally diverse work force, as is increasingly becoming the norm. Make no mistake, cultural differences can hamper and frustrate your operations. Africonexion can help you think about, identify, anticipate and resolve problems stemming from cultural differences.

Maybe you are a tourist company pursuing cultural tourism in Africa. My many years of researching, teaching, and writing about folklore and culture have given me the range and depth of understanding you can count on. In my field research in Tanzania, I have worked with people of different nationalities, as project leader and cultural mediator. With this background, Africonexion will help you develop or deliver cultural tours which are truly educational and liberating for both the tourists and the local people.

Perhaps you are a group of students or a college seeking study opportunities in Africa. My long experience as an advisor on academic link programs between U.S. and African institutions will stand you in good stead. I have advised students, administrators and academics from Africa as they prepared to go to the USA to study or do research, and I have done the same with students, administrators and academics from the USA, to prepare them for study, research and related activities in Africa.

Through tours, seminars, workshops, presentations, publications and other media, we will help students, entrepreneurs, tourists, missionaries, volunteers, researchers, diplomats, groups, organizations, governments and any others understand and navigate the cultural divide between Africans and non-Africans. Aware that Africa is not a cultural monolith, we seek to mediate cultural differences among Africans themselves as well, for example, between Africans of Asian origin and "indigenous" Africans.