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Business & Economics Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship in Africa

A Historical Approach

edited by Moses E. Ochonu

contributions by Ralph Callebert, Chambi Chachage, Gloria Chuku, Gloria Emeagwali, Michael Gennaro, Kwasi Konadu, Isidore Lobnibe, Marta Musso, Mike Odugbo Odey, Lynn Schler, Martin Shanguhyia & Uyilawa Usuanlele

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2018
Category
Entrepreneurship
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780253034380
    Publish Date
    Feb 2018
    List Price
    $53.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780253032607
    Publish Date
    Feb 2018
    List Price
    $118.00

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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.

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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.