Welcome to the MBendi AfroPaedia

Africa's electronic encyclopaedia of
business and commercial information

The MBendi AfroPaedia is compiled by MBendi Information Services to assist companies and business people around the world to do business in and with Africa. In our pages you will find information on the business opportunities and challenges in the countries of Africa, the companies and organisations active in various industry sectors (Oil, Gas, Chemicals, Mining etc.), the leading business and government personalities, details of events, conferences and exhibitions, a directory of products and services, the larger development projects currently underway in Africa, key African publications, and information on the African Stock Exchanges. This information is updated continuously, with important changes listed in our new pages section.

The MBendi AfroPaedia also provides a range of interactive services to international businesspeople. These include the African Employment Space, the African Trading Space and Guide to Exporting from South Africa, aimed at fostering trade in and with Africa, a search facility to find information in the AfroPaedia and an organisation seeker to find details of companies in specific countries or industries or stock exchanges.

Many companies advertise their products and services in the MBendi AfroPaedia in order to reach the tens of thousands of investors, traders and other business people around the world who use our site to research African business opportunities. Rather than provide banner adverts or link to other web sites, we blend our editorial content with client advertorial material in a way that is unobtrusive to readers.

The result is that our advertising clients achieve greater and more relevant exposure than they would from a stand-alone home page. More important, many report new business gained as a result of this approach. Contact MBendi or review our advertising options if you would like to advertise in the AfroPaedia.

As you can see from our newsletters and from our press clippings, the MBendi AfroPaedia is one of Africa's premier business web sites.

Using our extensive strategic management and Internet experience, the MBendi team has written a Corporate Internet Strategy guide which is available on this website.

Cape Town based web page developers, ASP programmers and researchers interested in working with MBendi should contact us.

We hope you find these pages useful and interesting and welcome feedback, suggestions, additional African information and corrections.

We would like to acknowledge with thanks the wide range of data sources and assistance we receive (including Robbie de Villiers, of Robbie de Villiers Design, who designed our logo).