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SUCCESS STO RY
About Christopher Chunya Munga and his African Business Venture
After six years working for companies in the UK, I decided to work as an Independent Consultant in Software
Development in 1996, sub-contracting my skills and services. My sub-contracting firm (M-Team Computers Ltd) was
opened in March 1996 with the view to provide software development consulting services across Europe and America.
In 1995, I visited Cameroon and decided to put together a move back to Africa plan. In 1996, I predicted that African
businesses will require my skills and services by 2000 in the field of database management system software
applications. In the first half of 1998, I decided to commence my move back to Africa by developing 7 different
software applications single handedly. I could not find an investor to sponsor the software development phase of the
project, so I had to sponsor the entire development myself.
Late 1999, I decided to research into Africa, to able to ascertain which African Country was ready for the products that
I developed. I researched into Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Kenya. I then decided to start with Ghana
as the Gateway for my African Software Venture.
I visited Ghana from early 2000, at least twice a year (all my personal investment). In the year 2002, I won my first
contract to implement my first product in Africa with a clinic in Accra, Ghana. This contract was a 94,000 USD contract
to implement my Health Care Software Application. As a result of this contract, I decided to move or relocated to
Ghana on the 4th of February 2003 ( for good ). A custom software development company was then set-up in the early
2000 with a Ghanaian partner.
Today, we have at least 9 core products being marketed across Africa. Most of our clients are in Ghana, but we now
have clients in Nigeria, Cameroon and pushing very hard to have new clients in Togo, Ivory Coast, and even South
Africa.
Ironically, from Ghana, we have started doing off-shore software development contracts for companies in the USA and
Europe. We just finished an off-shore contract with GEC USA with our sister company in Ghana ( Rancard Solutions).
Our company is called Pro Resolve Software Ghana Ltd and we now have 19 staffs with at least 100 clients scattered
across Ghana and Africa.
Our mission is to become the leading software house in the West Coast of Africa and provide software application
solutions to business to allow them to be profitable. Employee productive at work is at the heart of every software
solution that we implement. We have realized that for African Businesses to be internationally competitive, then they
must recognized international quality standard and employee productive must be improved and managed efficiently.
My advice to any African in the western world who is considering moving back home, is to have a good plan and to be
focus and brave. It is not easy doing business in Africa, but it is worth it. As a result of my effort in the late nineties, I
have now employed 19 staffs and basically have changed the lives of 19 young Africans in Ghana. Our company
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