Ambassador to the United States
ABOUT THE CAMEROON AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES
Henri Etoundi Essomba is a Cameroon Ambassador and is a former Dean of the Republic’s International Corps of Diplomats. Ambassador Essomba served as Ambassador to Israel for 12 years and Egypt 14 years before assuming responsibility as Ambassador to the United States in 2016. Prior to his service as an Ambassador, His Excellency served as Cameroon Desk Officer in the Ministry of Extranational Relations, First Secretary and Consul of the Cameroon Embassy in Paris (France), and Counselor and Charged’ Affaires A.I. of the Cameroon Embassy in Tel Aviv (Israel).
While much of the work of Ambassador Essomba in Israel focused positive relations based on a peace Cameroon had known which had been difficult for Israel, his challenge in his diplomatic service in the United States has been to get good information before the American people about the future economic
opportunities for both America and the African American population in America that could have an immense impact on the development of all of Africa. Success in advancing American government and private interest investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, port development, transportation logistics and agricultural opportunities in Cameroon is less fluid in America than with countries like France and China because of historical media interest in promoting Black African social dysfunction rather than economic opportunity; and Ambassador Essomba has been slowly but steadily changing that. Ambassador Essomba has been an excellent history and culture education advocate with the ability to provide context to the complex and difficult journey of Cameroon as a “young nation” that was formally two separate territorial colonies of France and Britian that is only sixty years old. His efforts to inform African Americans in particular of their potential ancestral birthright and responsibility to participate in the economic development of Cameroon given more than 10% of all enslaved Africans departed from the Port of Bimbia, has stimulated growing interest in American exploration of investment, commerce and trade there.
Ambassador Essomba has advocated for strong African-African American business investment partnerships as a means of creating jobs and economic expansion in Cameroon and America; and in supporting a sustained peace in the West African Region through increased economic stability and growth. As one of the world’s leading producers of crude oil, and a land rich with deposits of natural gas, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds, Cameroon’s door to business has been opened by Ambassador Essomba for America and African Americans to do business with and in Cameroon.
ABOUT THE AFRICAN-AFRICAN AMERICAN TRADE & COMMERCE AMBASSADOR
Chairman KB Stallworth is Founder of the National African American Thought Leaders State Action Council, Co-Founder of the Black Caucus Foundation of Michigan and majority shareholder of America’s first African American-owned overhead and underground electric power distribution construction, maintenance and restoration company, Utility Services of America. The company began contracting with the Detroit Edison Company in 1992 with nine employees generating $3Mil in revenue. By 2012 its USA -Energy Group and combined business units and holdings had more than 600 employees and revenue exceeding 100Mil associated with services to public utilities, municipalities, and electrical cooperatives across America inclusive of emergency storm and natural disaster hurricane response.
A former Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Commerce, Chairman Stallworth a Signatory Delegate to the 1995 African-African American Summit organized by Rev. Leon Sullivan in Dakar, Senegal; Chairman Stallworth worked successfully on the framework for African American business-linked land acquisition and ownership policy and dual citizenship.
An advocate for increasing African American access to infrastructure craft training, employment, business ownership, contract opportunities and skill export, Chairman Stallworth was a former Ranking Member on Michigan Transportation Appropriations as a member of the Michigan House Representatives. As a policy advocate he authored the “Best Value Procurement Policy” contained in Public Act 392 of 2012 that has been used by diversity, equity and inclusion sensitive public and private corporations, state and local governments across America to advance opportunities in infrastructure. Chairman Stallworth led efforts to “re-envision the delivery of inner city career technical education” with a public-private-philanthropic investment of $30 in Detroit Public Schools , inclusive of the modernization of Randolph Career Technical Education Center. He co-founded Michigan’s Annual Construction Science Expo, and authored the Energy Trades Pathway Initiative that resulted in a workforce that was 80% African American at the Detroit Public Lighting Authority. In 2023, he established a $40 Mil fund to assist capital needs of Black contractors. InvestAfrika has hotel interests in Nigeria, Rubber Plantation interest in Liberia and seeks to facilitate a Inter-nation Trade Corridor from Ghana to Cameroon.
CAMMEROON SEEKS AFRICAN AMERICAN LED U.S. INVESTMENT
Significant investment opportunities exist for African Americans, U.S. corporations, small and medium size businesses in Cameroon. Take time to review the information on this website, contact *Regal Initiative staff and plan a business trip or holiday in Cameroon. We are eager to connect you to opportunities and resources to help you access the profitable future awaiting you in Cameroon. Don’t Delay Contact Us Today !