Malick Biography
Based in the Republic of Mali W. Africa; Manden JuLaSoBa:Micro Enterprise Capital Corporation of Africa-M.E.C.C.A-GIE is an African community-based member owned & operated Micro & Medium-sized Enterprise (MME) global value-chain intermediary organization that partners with global value-chain market actors to provide African MMEs with enterprise capacity & capital-asset development services with innovative interest-free commercial trade & finance solutions that promote global value-chain market linkages.
Mr. Malick Al-Mounadi Keita-Knox, a native of Chicago, IL USA is a Micro Entrepreneur. He is a founding member & the Chief of Enterprise & Operations of our organization. He is a certified commercial gemologist with over 15yrs experience in W. Africa as a local commodities trader & venture capitalist specialized in providing interest-free trade credits & productive finance to traditional African market actors (known in the Malinke language of Mali as a "Julake"). In the pursuit of knowledge, experience & commercial enterprise, Mr.Keita-Knox has traveled to 4 continents & to over 20 countries. He is multi-lingual, 46yrs old, married with children & currently resides in the Republic of Mali W. Africa.
With an emphasis on community-based economic empowerment through entreprenuership & ethical out comes; the objective of our social enterprise is to increase the capacity of African MMEs to participate in the world economy while facilitating the increased access of global value-chain market actors to the African market through the provision of real market-based enterprise development & interest-free commercial finance solutions to commercially underserved Micro entrepreneurs & value-chain market actors aimed at facilitating the finance & coordination of real economic activities that create sustainable enterprise, employment, & real wealth through the production & trade of real services & goods.
We possess a wide range of commercial intermediary services aimed at the efficient & effective allocation of capital, labor & material resources to create real wealth through profit/risk-sharing enterprise, interest-free finance & value-chain market linkages that will promote sustainable local & international markets.
Our commercial intermediary services/ products
1.) Enterprise Capital finance & Asset Development
A.) Asset-backed (i.e gold/silver) savings mobilization & consumer credit
B.) MME commercial equity & quasi-equity investment
C.) Asset-based export-import, Trade, working capital & agricultural finance
D.) Mutual-Aid insurance (Takaful)
E.) Mobile Money/E-Finance & Payment services
F.) Commercial Agency
2.) Entrepreneurial Capacity-Building
A.) Entrepreneurial skills training
B.) Financial education
C.) I.T training
D.) Enterprise & Association Organizational development
E.) Technical assistance
F.) Administrative support
Our targeted markets are underserved African MMEs & value-chain market actors who are seeking increased participation in the world economy & access to African markets through profit/risk-sharing (P.R.S) enterprise & interest-free finance.
