“Flauntertainment” was the word of the night at the Boucarou Lounge on 64 East 1st, NYC, on Tuesday Dec 1st. Flaunt Africa’s first business cocktail, tagged “Converse Commerce” went underway. 

Flauntertainment are events that “raise awareness of countless positive developments flourishing” on the African continent in an entertaining manner, the Founder of Flaunt Africa, Uchenwa Njoku explained. For more info about Flaunt Africa, visit FlauntAfrica.org

It was a really refreshing event as entrepreneurs of african descent and/or with business interest in Africa showed up. Business cards were all over the place, exchanging hands back and forth. 

There were people from various works of life, finance, fashion, food, entertainment, and new media.

At the end of the night, like many of the attendees I had a pocket full of business cards, useful ones though, so they wont end up spreading the fire in my fire place, lol.

One particular contact that I made that sticks out is that of Akin, – Panla.com. His company provided the food for the event. I almost refused to leave without tasting what they had to offer, because the aroma was just hard to ignore. So if you a looking for a professional caterer in the New York area, who makes mind numbing tasty food – you owe the good folks at Panla.com a call. When you do, tell them Abiola Abiola sent you.

Other people that I meet who stick out in my memory are the following:

Olivier Ametchie of AfroCarib Marketing Group, with whom I had a long conversation on marketing, and connecting African businesses with their target demographics.

Ashley Bendell of Exotix (exotix.co.uk) , they are into investments in sub-sahara Africa.

Debo Folorunsho, Founder of Bamboo3 Communications (The Applause magazine)

Fikisha Cumbo, CEO of CACE Int’l Inc. which is a media company – TV, books, photo, and video productions.

Ella Gorgla of The Khana Group – www.TheKhanaGroup.com

Well, thats about all I can recall off hands – will have to dig through the business cards to put up more.

Finally, a big congratulations to the organizers for a successful event. I personally hope to see more of such cocktails. Till then, it’s me your humble correspondent Abiola. (Follow me on Twitter @AbiolaDreams)

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