Sanders Serves as Visiting Woodrow Wilson Scholar at CBU, Riverside, California

CEO-FEEEDS, Dr. Robin Sanders served as the 2019 annual Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar at Catholic Baptist University(CBU), Riverside, California. Her worked focused on educating students about world affairs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSAfrica), implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa, particularly in the health and education sectors, sharing the goals of the U.S.' trade facilitation program called the African Growth and Opportunity Act (or AGOA), and stressing the importance of Americans seeing SSAfrica differently as a

strategic investment, trade, and security partner.


Dr. Sanders was also given a tour of CBU's upgraded air fleet  of Piper 2-seater planes at its flight school, which included a  hands on flight with the school's flight director and Sanders taking the plane controls for a short period to loop over the famous, but rare " super blooming poppy fields," of California's Lake Elsinore and Walker Canyon of Western Riverside County.

As part of her subject matter expertise on Africa, Sanders also discussed the China-Africa and US-Africa relationships, noting that these were separate relationships and not a tripartite or 3-dimensional relationship. "Africa will chose its partners, and we can work with the region to help in better scrutinizing contracts, sharing best practices, and pushing our competencies, our value-added expertise, and assist with capacity building" Sanders added.

While at CBU Ambassador Sanders, in addition to her lectures with students, gave a public speech entitled The U.S & 21st Century Africa," as part of a joint CBU-World Affairs Council event that also included a book signing of both Sanders books -

The Rise of Africa's Small Businesses and The Legendary Uli Women of Nigeria. See video at end of blog

  

BookMad Sept2017 E-Magazine-Spolights Amb. Sanders' New E-Book Version of her work on Africa Small Businesses

BookMad E-Magazine September 2017 issue - Spotlights Ambassador  Sanders' new E-Book Version of her work on Africa Small Businesses. See page 11 of BookMad's September 2017 issue of featured e-books!

To View BookMad's September issue, page 11 for Sanders book. See iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bookmad/id900476200?mt=8 ; and
    Google Play at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details…

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Dr. Sanders Speaking @ DC's Prestigious DACOR House on Impact of SMEs

Ambassador Sanders continues her efforts to raise the important role Africa small businesses, better know as Africa small and medium size enterprises. She will be a featured guest at Washington's D.C. prestigious

DACOR Bacon House speaking at its Critical Issues Policy Forum in October 2017. The Critical Issues Forum profiles key policy, development and economic issues from around the world.  The historic DACOR Bacon House and its Foundation is an

organization of foreign affairs professionals, and was founded in 1952. Its purpose and goal is to continue to "foster interest in foreign affairs and to build mutual international understanding between the people of the United States and those from around the world." In addition its helps to support and encourage young Americans to enter the U.S. Foreign Service (U.S. Diplomatic Corps) and supports those already in the Service. DACOR Bacon House is located two blocks from the White House. See http://www.dacorbacon.org/ for more information


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Top Link Publisher social media campaigning efforts highlight Sanders' book on Africa SMEs

After choosing Dr. Sanders's book on the impact and importance of Africa's small and medium size enterprises as a quality book on business development in the developing world,  Top Link Publisher focuses its social media campaigning efforts on highlighting Sanders' book. Clink links below to see Top Link Publisher's pages social media pages on Ambassador Sanders' book "The Rise of Africa's Small & Medium Size Enterprises."

https://www.facebook.com/Ambassador-Dr-Robin-Renee-Sanders-129964330970793/

https://twitter.com/authorRRsanders

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/authorrobinreneesanders

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Amb. Sanders TEDxTALK Video on Impact of Africa's Small Business (SMEs) on Region's Development

Ambassador Sanders presents at TEDxTALK Emory on the Key Role Africa's Small & Medium Size Enterprises are playing in advancing the development of the Sub Saharan Africa Region and their role in growing Africa's Middle Class - presentation highlights this "good news story" about the region. Click Below to see Sanders TEDxTALK on the subject:

 

                                                                                                                                                                

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GALLUP World Poll Hosts Amb. Robin Sanders Book "Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises”

Small Businesses Rise to the Challenges of Development in Sub Saharan Africa





Jon Clifton, Managing Partner Gallup World Poll remarks at the

book presentation on “The Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises” written by Ambassador Robin Sanders, (right), Thursday, May 11, 2017- Photo by Idika Onyukwu

While development is ultimately the responsibility of each sovereign country, small and medium size enterprises (more commonly referred to as SMEs) within Sub-Saharan Africa are providing what Sanders calls creative business-aiding-development enterprises that are defining the region’s future and responding to its many age-old challenges with both new and appropriate (repurposing by-products of paper or plastic) technology solutions, according to Ambassador Robin Renee Sanders. Ambassador Sanders, a former top U.S. government diplomat who served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the West African Regional Organization ECOWAS, and Ambassadors to Nigeria and Republic of Congo, spoke at the Washington, D.C. area launch of her new book on May 11, 2017.  The book titled “The Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprise; Spurring Development & Growing the Middle Class,” highlights the role small businesses are playing in not only aiding development but adding to the economic growth of the Sub Saharan Africa Region. The Washington, D.C. book launch was hosted by Gallup World Poll, with Allafrica.com as the event’s media partner. Sanders, who is CEO of FEEEDS, along with Gallup World Poll and Allafrica.com have partnered annually to cover key events on Africa over the last several years from policies to elections, to improvement in governance.

In his opening remarks, Gallup World Poll Managing Partner Jon Clifton said, “The Africa small business story is one of the good news stories, and Gallup World Poll data helps to tell this good news story.”  Clifton commented that in Ambassador Sanders’s book there are a number Gallup World Poll Datagraphs that helped add to sharing this all-important story of the roll today that Africa’s SMEs are playing, even in, or in spite of difficult or post-conflict environments in some cases.

“The Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises” discusses the determination of Africa’s SMEs to step into the void left by 40 years of post-independence development efforts that left very little impact on overall poverty reduction and job creation in the region. Some of the key chapters include a focus on recommendations on what donors, the African Union, African governments, and the new U.S. Administration can do to further assist Africa SMEs.  The book also sheds light on the “China Factor” in the region and its efforts in the SME sector; serves as a resource-rich data source of not only what Africa’s SMEs are doing, but shares investment, foundation, and competition opportunities that Africa’s SMEs can take advantage of, and extensively covers what SSAfrica’s female entrepreneurs are achieving as well as they special challenges they face.  Other areas covered by the book include: special programs by the various African stock exchanges (e.g. Johannesburg, Kenya, Nigerian) for Africa’s SMEs, which helps them better understand as well as access the capital markets, the new role that other technology creative-use boosters such as 3-D printing and drones are adding to the mix of small business opportunities; and, Sanders highlights the top eight list or her TEL list of sectors where Africa SMEs are playing and could play more of role in economic development.

Participants at the event included former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Ambassadors of Mozambique and Rwanda, Carlos Dos Santos, and Prof. Mathilde Mukantabana, and Economic Minister, Embassy of South Africa, Malose Letsoalo. Other key figures attending were Prof Kingsley Moghalu ex-Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria, Eric Guichard, CEO-Homestrings, a leading Diaspora investment platform, representatives of UPAC, a prominent Africa Diaspora Business and Policy Organization, and other prominent members of the diplomatic community, think tanks, NGOs and academia from the greater Washington, D.C. area, New York, and Virginia.

TwitterLive GALLUP-FEEEDS Africa SME Event: https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23AfricaSMEs&lang=en  

Book press release: www.bit.ly/SandersAfricaSMEsBook 

Book Video Trailer:  https://youtu.be/fk-BONoNz9U;     

Allafrica.com: Rise of Africa’s Small & Medium Size Enterprises - Robin Sanders;

                        Sanders' New Book Notes the Insta-impact of Africa's Small Businesses;

Nigeria placement: Business Section Nigeria's Guardian Newspaper;

List of 30 Other media placements: https://app.box.com/v/SMEBook-Media-Placements;

Book Signings & Speaking Event Schedule: https://app.box.com/v/SME-Book-Events  

Tweeter handles: #AfricaSMEs, @Gallup, @rrsafrica, #AfricaSMEsGallup

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