MISSION
BANA University
A virtual educational platform that will connect to best practices around the world to build the skills and experience of future Chief Executive’s and leaders of Africa.
The platform will identify the best leadership and business programmes from universities across the world (Global University Rankings 2018), for example universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stamford, Yale, Princeton, Tokyo.
BANA Group want to establish a new African Leaders for Change programme that ensures emerging leaders and business people from Africa have the educational
competence and business acumen to shape a new Africa and lead in into the future.
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Block for Block
Africa’s source of wealth comes from its natural reserves such as minerals, oil and gas. The areas of land where these reserves are contained are referred to as blocks and a report published in 2016 by War on Want ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’s Scramble for Africa’s Energy and Mineral Resources’ suggests that over $58 billion was exploited from Africa by foreign investors in 2015.
As World Trade Organisation rules prevent Africa from ensuring the majority of staff employed to do this work come from Africa and current global tax laws are being exploited by these companies, Block for Block proposed that for every block of natural reserve foreign investors take from Africa they give a block back in the form of investment in social and economic development.
This could be used to invest in building the infrastructure of Africa to ensure mining resources remain in the country and raw materials are processed and refined in the country. It could also be used to invest in the New Africa Enterprise, Housing, Agriculture, eWaste and Health initiatives.
It could help build communities and schools and provide much needed machinery and equipment for many enterprise solutions.
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Housing
Supporting local people to develop a range of construction and housing development skills to create local energy efficient housing solutions such as pre fabricated housing which is very successful in the Netherlands and Germany, which compliment Africa’s climate, remain cool in the heat and retain heat in the cold and have solar panels to generate electricity and light.
New Africa Housing would also encourage opportunity in a range of professions associated with the industry including construction management, architecture, site management, in addition to traditional labouring skills or trades like bricklaying, plastering and joinery.
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New Africa Health
Africa has traditionally focused on much needed care in relation to HIV and malaria, but changing lifestyle and communities are seeing a need for more accessible and localised healthcare solutions such as models in the United States known as Urgent Care and Walk in
Centres as they are known in Europe and the UK.
New Africa Health would like to support establishment of this model in Africa as it responds to a public need for convenient access to unscheduled medical care and also provides significant monetary savings when compared with emergency departments as well as alleviating strain on already stretched hospital provision.
Accessibility and a licenced physician with direct access to communication lines with local hospitals for possible patient transfer and the ability to treat a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries are key.
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Mining
Not only do World Trade Organisation rules prevent Africa from ensuring the majority of staff employed to mine in the country are African, those opportunities are also limited traditionally to mining, which is hard labour and the lowest paid job.
New Africa mining aspires to ensure opportunities are created in other jobs related to the trade such as construction, engineering, exploration, operations and the processing and refining of the raw materials.
Building skills that will provide Africans with the capability to establish their own mining companies in the future, with equipment purchased through Block to Block investment. We also want to ensure policies are developed to protect and give female workers equal rights in the trade.
Small scale mining is a huge source of revenue for Africa, with a quarter of the 8 million workers being women, who are also paid less than men. Mining is hazardous work but is still a bigger source of financial income than other employment, so they risk their health and lives to mine and pan for tiny slivers of gold in contaminated waters or risk being buried in landslides at gold pits.
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Agriculture
Supporting agricultural opportunity is twofold. New Africa Agriculture want to create opportunity for new small farmers ensuring local people develop agriculture skills and farming experience through growing and producing their own products to provide to local businesses and local markets in Africa.
Over 60% of the population of sub –Saharan Africa is smallholder farmers and agriculture in Africa has a massive social and economic footprint whose potential is currently being marketed to foreign investors as untapped. Africa could easily produce significantly more cereals, grains, crops and livestock with the right investment in irrigation, machinery, storage and raw materials and create much needed economic solutions for African people.
The second area New Africa Agriculture want to support are the emergent farmers who are ready for expansion. They are already well established, have good access to the market and influence agricultural policies in their countries, have the land, but are restricted from growth due to risk adverse financial institutions, preventing them from buying all the resources they needed to farm all their land, or have limited agronomic expertise and would benefit from enhanced expertise in this area to achieve the productivity potential their land holds.