Africans are Building Their Unique Brand Part II

[williamjackson]

Africans are Building Their Unique Brand Part II

Suggestions for African Branding:
1. Africans personal Brands should be self reflective of their
goals in business, commerce, education and entreprenuialism
What markets do they want to enter into or expand to should
enter into their Brand building.

2. African Brandings should include what they want societies
local, national and international to see.
Planned work goes into building a Brand, it allows for
reflection and adaption to changing needs and what is available
to offer.

3. African strengths are in the potential to grow, to extend
out of the box of conventional imagination. The mind set must
change as the demands and imaginations of Africans change.
Innovation Innovation Innovation

4. Africans are finding their Brand is personal and leading
them on new journeys. It opens up additional questions:

Questions related to Brand growth.....
A. How do I want to expand?
B. How can I match a personal Brand to grow in to a business
brand.
C. How do I want Africans, Europeans, Americans and the
international markets to see me?
D.What makes me unique as an African?
E.My Brand identity is important why?
F.How can I collaborate with to expand my Brand?
G. What technologies are available that I can integrate to
share/spread my Brand?

Asking, then answering are foundations to building a strong
and influential Brand. Understanding your "Brand" how you present
yourself to others. Understanding your "Brand Identity" the
qualities that make you unique and different from others.
Africans must take the initiative to mentally grow in areas
not involved in and make academic growth by taking classes,
workshops, attend conferences and begin to network.

Africans that begin with a vision and start are already growing
in force so must see themselves as leaders. Vision is a start,
the journey allows them to envision themselves as growing
Presidents, Managers, Corporate Executives, Visionaries,
Chief Business Officers, Chief Brand Officers, Chief Engineers,
Social Media Visionaries, Chief Design Officers and the list goes on. 

Controlling your Brand helps you control how you are perceived
by others that want to partner with you and collaborate with you.
Perceptions manage the thinking of thinking people. Your
Brand can make you memorable, forgettable, nefarious or
notorious, the choice is yours.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I think you've lost me on this post.

Africans?  As in non-Americans?

Or are you just lumping in all dark-skinned people into one big, generalized group and stripping them of their actual nationality, heritage and citizenship?

[williamjackson]

Sorry for the confusion to you and others.

The reason for this blog was because the growing influence of African bloggers and those
entering in the technology fields of the world. Many people are looking at Asians and Indians
from the country of India, not the native Americans here in our nation.

Africa because of its resources provide the necessary natural resources need to build many
of the component for technology, and they are providing more people with tech skills globally.

So naturally Africa which is a continent not a country, are making influential moves in the
global markets when talking about technology.

Hope that clears this up and by the way there are millions of light skinned Africans that do
not claim to be white, but African. Imagine if we American embrace us as Americans and not
by color how globally influential we could be?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Hope that clears this up and by the way there are millions of light skinned Africans that do
not claim to be white, but African. Imagine if we American embrace us as Americans and not
by color how globally influential we could be?

You're making my point for me, which is quite the opposite of your original post. 

There are also lots of dark skinned Americans who's ancestry come from the islands:  Jamaica, Bahamas and Haiti to name a few.  For some reason many people, such as yourself, tend to strip them of their own heritage and lump them in with all people of dark complexion and a label as African-American, or in your particular case, just Africans.

So maybe if you started from within and stopped mis-characterizing people who may look like you, but don't share any of the labels you choose to apply to them, THEN we can start to truly be influential by embracing all and not pigeon-holing certain people who look a certain way in a mis-labeled box.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Hope that clears this up and by the way there are millions of light skinned Africans that do
not claim to be white, but African. Imagine if we American embrace us as Americans and not
by color how globally influential we could be?

You're making my point for me, which is quite the opposite of your original post. 

There are also lots of dark skinned Americans who's ancestry come from the islands:  Jamaica, Bahamas and Haiti to name a few.  For some reason many people, such as yourself, tend to strip them of their own heritage and lump them in with all people of dark complexion and a label as African-American, or in your particular case, just Africans.

So maybe if you started from within and stopped mis-characterizing people who may look like you, but don't share any of the labels you choose to apply to them, THEN we can start to truly be influential by embracing all and not pigeon-holing certain people who look a certain way in a mis-labeled box.

In all fairness, I think all of us strip people of their heritage and nationality.  I started having a problem a few years ago assuming that people were either African or American based on their skin color when I realized how many people were neither.

I'm moving the other direction.  I was guilty of it too until about a year ago, until  personal acquaintance of mine and I started having this conversation and many like it whenever we run into each other with some time to spare.  I believe the conversations started around the Michael Brown incident and grew from there to the BLM movement, to MLK, Jr / Malcom X Civil Rights movements and 'white privilege'. 

He is a dark-skinned American (his words) with a masters in Psychology and has some very counter-mainstream thoughts on many of the subjects.   Some of his views only reinforce my own, and some have challenged me to look at things a bit differently as evidenced through my continuously changing outlook on many subjects.