Business & Economics Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship in Africa
A Historical Approach
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2018
- Category
- Entrepreneurship
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780253034380
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $53.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780253032607
- Publish Date
- Feb 2018
- List Price
- $118.00
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Description
A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.
About the authors
Moses E. Ochonu's profile page
Ralph Callebert's profile page
Chambi Chachage's profile page
Gloria Emeagwali's profile page
Michael Gennaro's profile page
Isidore Lobnibe's profile page
Mike Odugbo Odey's profile page
Contributor Notes
Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria (IUP), which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression.