Gnoleba Seri, Esq. President & CEO of the ACCUS Welcome to the African Chamber of Commerce in the United States website. In 2005, several dedicated African professionals and African leaders realized the enormous potential of the African Business community in the United States and decided to create a national organization to represent its interests before the public and private sectors. The purpose in creating The African Chamber of Commerce is to serve, advocate and promote African-owned businesses which have been voiceless and powerless for too long. While many would debate the need to create such a structure, it is our deep conviction that by aiding the African Business community it would strongly grow and develop, thereby allowing African business owners to have access to business and financial opportunities. Currently, African businesses are not striving because they act independent towards one another. The result is lack of economic power. The African Chamber of Commerce in the United States has therefore been founded to correct old ways of doing business and to forge the unity of all African businesspeople that they will have their voice heard. The African Chamber inspires to becoming both; an instrument that helps African businesses within and without the United States to navigate through the maze of United States and African States governmental regulations; also a power that will provide the African business community with information, opportunities, resourceful <b>...</b>