Not tailor it to the music business, was using it as an example as I am involved in it at the moment, I work for a record shop and have to place orders and so on. Each distribution company I go to sells our music, from Jazz to Afro beat to Reggae some specialize in doing so as in specifically focus on ''Black entertainment'' the whole culture and so on yet we don't see any return on that what so ever simply because we don't have any control over our output, we make it and thats more or less it, so here in england you have companies like Boombox a successful distribution company who focus on what we put out, specifically, I'd throw in others like SRD, Grooveattack in germany who have deals with American record companies to distribute African American goods to retail outlets in europe and others like suspectpackages who again focus on ''Black british'' music and culture.... It then leads into clothing where the Asians have taken up on making well designed ''urban'' wear and Middle eastern people with the money to buy or rent high street stores again selling our culture back to us. Could run off a list of names in wood green alone. Go to artist nights throughout london and we'll be there full force coming out with something new or different only to have it taken up on by someone else...

Thats where a co-operative distribution company could change things for the better, taking over from those companies who already focus on distributing our goods and bringing together Black owned retail outlets it allows for better control over our output. From there, the back end as it were it'd be possible to help budding artists in numerous ways. It'd have enough scope to make a huge impact and clean up the industry in general. Do good for the whole rather than feed a few as it were.

Could go on and explain it better but thats not the point, said I ''want to'' do it but its not feasible, theres no 'S' on my chest .lol. I'd have to go to college study the necessary aspects of business and in turn apply that to the music industry... after doing that and making it successful I'd have created a Pan African distribution company, a model that can be in turn applied to any industry, from the ground up, having to deal with people and show how it would benefit them and us as a whole to be on board to having a know how of running a co-operative company with the necessary facets in place to ensure the security and future of the company... From there, taking a look at business in general you can see how it itself can be taught in a way that better suits us, taking it from its western setting and placing it in ours reinterpreted to make it distinctly Pan African rather than western... finance for example, packages can be put together that cater to our needs as a community that would need to be understood, am sure there are other things that can be done in all of the arenas to better ourselves, right to buy in property would be another can tie that in with the finance industry arranging packages, loans and mortgages to suit.... business should be done in Swahili just as it is spoken in A.U meetings we need a common language to address each other from France to South Africa to Brazil we speak different languages, having a common one to relate to each other in is a nessecity, something that would be included in the Unified Pan African model for business.

It'd vary from coast to coast, each of us would need to put our own spin on it but it'd have to stay strong at its core and not be allowed to get lost in itself.