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<\/a>Organized by the University of South Carolina, the program provides participating faculty from colleges and universities around the United States with a greater understanding of the business challenges of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Florida International University (FIU) Center for International Business Education and Research (FIU-CIBER<\/a>) sponsored Barber\u2019s participation in the program.<\/p>\n Trip connects with both business and cultural aspects of the region.<\/em><\/p>\n In Nairobi, Kenya, the itinerary included tours of Delmonte Fresh Produce, the Coca-Cola distributor, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Kenya Wildlife Service, the American Embassy and a clothing and dartboard manufacturer in an export-processing zone. In Tanzania, the group toured the Burka Coffee Estate, the town of Mto wa Mbu and a Masaai village. They also met with University of Nairobi professors, who briefed them on business challenges and opportunities in Kenya.<\/p>\n Barber noted that safaris ranked as trip highlights.<\/p>\n \u201cI was struck by the scenery and the abundance of wildlife,\u201d he said. \u201cThe experience was much more amazing than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n A tour of the Kibera Slums in Nairobi made an equally strong impression.<\/p>\n \u201cSeeing the conditions that these people were living in made me appreciate our own comfortable conditions,\u201d Barber said. \u201cThe tour also made me wonder about economy of a slum. In particular, it caused me to consider the flow of money in and out of the slum and the circulation of money within.\u201d<\/p>\n He definitely recommends that colleagues consider the FDIB to Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was an outstanding trip,\u201d he said. \u201dFrom the food to the business tours to the safaris, it was exceptionally well organized, providing an excellent range of activities and a good opportunity to learn about Sub-Saharan Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exciting. Spectacular. Eye-opening. Well-planned. Intense. These are just some of the words that Joel Barber, associate professor in the College of Business Administration\u2019s Department of Finance and Real Estate, used to describe his recent trip to Africa. He joined 16 other professors on the Fifth Annual Faculty Development in International Business (FDIB) Africa Program for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[374,435,619,1310],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20841,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>