Africa.com
| Private | |
| Founded | 2001 Launched 2010 |
| Founder | Teresa Clarke |
| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Teresa Clarke (Founder and CEO) Foluso Phillips (Advisory Board Member) Jendayi Frazer (Advisory Board Member) Vusi Khanyile (Advisory Board Member) |
| Products | Travel guidebook, online encyclopedia, online community |
| Website | Africa.com |
Africa.com is an internet media company. Launched in 2010 by Teresa Clarke, the company has grown into a media company providing coverage on topics such financial, political and cultural news related to Africa. Using the online web portal about the continent, its main purpose is to be a unique platform for anyone interested in Africa to learn more about all aspects of the continent. Also it provides for both business and world leaders accurate information about the investment climate.
The Africa.com organization has representation offices in Johannesburg, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; and New York City, United States. African American business woman and entrepreneur Teresa Clarke is the CEO and founder of the site; CBS News correspondent Jacqueline Adams is the executive editor, and Jendayi Frazer (Ambassador to South Africa) is an advisory board member.
Africa.com was launched in February 2010, by Teresa Clarke after resigning from her position as a managing director in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co. Clarke is also co-founder of the Student Sponsorship Programme in South Africa.
Clarke lived in South Africa from 1995 to 2000 and acquired the domain name around 2001. "Over most of the last decade, I worked at Goldman Sachs. During my free time, I imagined what I would do with the domain name and I looked at other African websites."
In a Wall Street Journal article from May 2010, Africa.com was mentioned because of its potential relevance with the impending 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa that same year. "The site is small—with about 50,000 monthly unique users—but Ms. Clarke said she sees potential in the growth of African investment and a middle class in several African countries." Since then, Africa.com has expanded to add information about each of the continent's 54 countries, with over 30,000 daily visitors according to Alexa.com.
Recently Africa.com has partnered with a number of well-known content providers including The Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs and HAND/EYE Magazines, McKinsey and Company, Freedom House and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. It has also developed its own original content including blogs from the likes of a former president of Nigeria and several U.S. ambassadors to various African countries. Also it has published the first and only online museum guide providing detailed information about museums in every African country. Thus becoming a heavily visited site and destination for users from different continents interested in Africa.
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