eShopAfrica.com - fair trade arts & crafts direct from Africa

Peace Corps partnership

2007-10-31T17:49:00.000Z

Today we met with Dave McNally, an Associate Director with the Peace Corps, and John Park, a Peace Corps volunteer located near Kumasi. We discussed different areas where we could work together in partnership. We particularly talked with John Park about working with some of the Kente weavers located in his village. We also set up a meeting later in November to meet with some of the local artisans and cement this new relationship.

Beers of the World

2007-04-12T22:13:00.000+01:00

In the April/May 07 edition of Beers of the World magazine our beer coffins scored a hit. The piece reminds us that Homer Simpson dreams of being buried in a beer coffin - Homer - eShopAfrica can make your dream come true! Read the piece.

eShopAfrica in National Geographic

2005-09-29T22:12:00.000+01:00

In the September 2005 special edition of National Geographic on Africa eShopAfrica was mentioned:

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eShopAfrica.com This Ghana based fair trade website helps African craftspeople build their businesses by offering products ranging from kente cloth and other textiles to custom-made coffins. Profits help pay for education and health care.

Fortune Small Business Feb 05

2005-02-12T22:09:00.000Z

Coffins to Die For
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In Ghana what you do in life determines the style of your burial. The Ga tribe, located in the country's capital Accra, models coffins to reflect their occupants hobbies and occupations from peacocks for bird lovers to airplanes for pilots. Now five-year-old exporter eShopAfrica.com is giving the burial vessels new life aboveground in the living rooms of Europe and America. British-born founder Cordelia Salter-Nour 47, spent two decades in Africa in technology development before moving to Rome, where she decided to start a company that would give Ghanaian artisans an escape from exploitive practices. &One artist we use, Samuel Naah, paid off his apprentice fees with two commissions from us. Now he has his own business,& says Salter-Nour. Prices range from $125 for desktop chests to $1250 for six foot models. In 2004, eShopAfrica.com's sales for all its art exports - including drums, textiles and jewellery- topped $50,000. - SUE KARLIN

Greenstar.org - Sweatshops and Butterflies

2004-12-15T07:12:00.000Z

article for Sustainable Development InternationaleShopAfrica.com exports arts from Africa, to help traditional artisans make a decent living. Young people move to the towns, but end up unemployed or homeless because they don't have urban skills. eShopAfrica puts money and prestige back into their lives, building the value of their traditional skills. Visit the site

Digital Dividend - ICTs and Handicrafts

2004-11-18T07:10:00.000Z

eShopAfrica.com sells arts and crafts from Ghana, and encourages their artisans to learn Internet skills in order to help them develop their own design ideas. Read more

E Marketing 3rd edition by Judy Strauss...

2004-08-22T19:37:00.000+01:00

Practitioner Perspective: Ecommerce from Ghana. Although we are based in Ghana, we are marketing to the rest of the world so the fact that credit cards are hardly used in Africa does not affect us. Until there is... Read more

Playboy Jun 04

2004-06-22T22:07:00.000+01:00

FATAL DISTRACTION - GOING IN STYLE
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Crazy caskets cheer up the grimmest of reapers. If you sell shoes for a living, you may as well step into the hereafter in a giant wingtip. At least that's the thinking in Ghana, where a coffin is the last word in style. Fifty years ago* a Ghanaian angler shipped off in a seven foot fish and started a trend; today there's an endless variety of silly, folk-arty things on the market. Cabdrivers are buried in wooden taxis, preachers in Bible-shaped boxes and suds lovers in beer bottles. Want your own? eShopAfrica.com will put a giant reminder of mortality in your living room for a mere $1000.

* According to the book Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa by Thierry Secretan the thematic coffin tradition started earlier than this

FHM Magazine Jun 04

2004-06-07T22:02:00.000+01:00

COFFINS - GETAWAY CASKETS
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All the fun of a funeral in Ghana without ever having to live there. No-one knows where we go when we die. If it's LA though, you're going to need a set of wheels. Thanks to coffin-makers in Ghana, the dead can now take to the afterlife in a hand-carved Ferrari, Subaru or whatever they fancy. "Ghana's Ga people bury their dead in coffins that represent the life of the deceased," says Cordelia Salter-Nour of eShopAfrica.com, the business that's bringing Ghana's best to the West. The designs come in full, half and table top models. "Half size is a children's coffin," Salter-Nour says. But do Westerners want to spend eternity in a giant phone? "Sure they do," Salter-Nour insists. &One customer wants to be buried in a peacock. But she ordered a half size, so she'll have to squash unless she's small."

See picture of the Ferrari coffin and the peacock in the Coffin Gallery

African Crafts Certificate

2004-03-16T14:10:00.000Z

eShopAfrica.com is targeting consumers who want highly unusual products. Explain what is meant by the ‘bundle of benefits’ that products provide for customers and how this affects perceived value in the customer’s eyes. Read more

Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Study of Successes by David Fick

2004-02-28T14:01:00.000Z

Entrepreneurship in Africa is a study of those entrepreneurs who have achieved success, wealth, and fame by organizing and directing a business undertaking in Africa. It is a story about successful entrepreneurs who have assumed risk in pursuit of profit, who have tried to conform to ethical business standards and who have tried to contribute to the economic development and improve the natural environment and the education, health, and welfare of their community and nation. Find out more.

Balancing Act Africa newsletter

2004-01-24T13:57:00.000Z

eShopAfrica.com sells top quality African manufactured goods in bulk. It is based in Ghana and is using the internet to create a larger global market for African products. Its owners say: The world has been told to buy more from Africa - we want to help them. Read more

Development Gateway

2003-12-03T21:58:00.000Z

From Africa to Argentina, case studies of handicrafts groups using the Internet for sales and marketing are showcased this month as some of the leading "success stories" for small enterprise e-business worldwide. Read more...

Boating Magazine Oct 03

2003-10-17T22:00:00.000+01:00

BOATING FOR ETERNITY
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We know boating is your life - obviously - so spend the hereafter in a coffin built to resemble your boat. Morbid? Yes. Better than anything your family will pick out for you? Absolutely. In the tradition of the Ga people of Ghana, who are buried in a coffin that reflects how they lived, eShopAfrica.com will build you a specially carved coffin for $1,000. Just send the company a picture of your boat and your final resting place will be completed in four to six weeks. If you're the consummate angler, you can choose one of the many fish styles from the eShopAfrica.com's current roster of 22 decorated coffins and chests or send them a picture of your 1,000 pound trophy blue marlin and they will carve to order. Now you can truly sleep with the fishes.

Security IT world - Africa confronts cyber crime

2003-06-20T14:12:00.000+01:00

Law enforcement agencies and ISPs (Internet service providers) in Africa are trying to stem a wave of cybercrime originating from some parts of the continent. Read more

Government Technology International

2003-04-28T21:47:00.000+01:00

eShopAfrica Eager to Break Into The Global Market. eShopAfrica.com is a Ghanaian fair trade e-commerce website that sources arts and crafts direct from traditional African artisans. Part of their challenge is to prove that e-commerce can work for Africa. However, their target markets are far away and they need help accessing them. Read more...

African crafts go online - BBC online

2003-02-03T20:21:00.000Z

Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their wares to collectors on the other side of the globe, thanks to...

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BBC online news Feb 03

2003-02-03T07:41:00.000Z

Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their wares to collectors on the other side of the globe, thanks to... Read more.

Wall Street Journal, Jul 02, Michael Phillips

2002-07-15T07:22:00.000+01:00

...Cordelia Salter-Nour, who runs an African-goods retail Web site called eShopAfrica.com here, recently approached Mr. Millet about displaying his products online... Read more

Wall Street Journal, May 02, Michael Phillips

2002-05-22T07:32:00.000+01:00

... A business called eShopAfrica.com sells Africana online. Products include hand-carved Ga coffins that are shaped like airplanes, shoes and howitzers, all designed to reflect the earthly interests of the recently deceased. Read more

eShopAfrica.com made 'lead' company

2001-06-15T20:05:00.000+01:00

AMEX, a USAID project designed to increase non-traditional exports from Africa, has made eShopAfrica.com a 'lead' company. It has chosen us an example of how ecommerce can be used to achieve their objectives and wants other businesses to follow our example. They are giving us valuable and timely support in building up our business fast - here are some of the reasons why eShopAfrica was chosen:

Africa's Shopping Mall Launched

2001-04-15T20:10:00.000+01:00

Computer and Technology News, Ghana

An African art and craft ecommerce website has been launched in Accra. The website eShopAfrica.com is a business to business site with the objective of selling indigenous African manufactured products online to retailers and resellers around the world. Read this piece

Launch Press Release Feb 01

2001-02-08T19:51:00.000Z

eShopAfrica.com, a fair trade ecommerce website operating out of Ghana, West Africa is launching this week. eShopAfrica.com brings you top quality African arts and crafts made by traditional African artisans many of who currently live in povoery. The world has been told to buy more from Africa - we want to help them. Read the launch press release