Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

by Darko Opoku (Editor), Eve Sandberg (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses. Contributors to this volume detail the constraints placed on African entrepreneurs through rich case studies and challenge African leaders and international donors to review their own behaviors if they hope for African entrepreneurs to succeed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319609997
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA.

Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs

Eve Sandberg


2. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana
Darko Opoku


3. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria
Samuel O. Oloruntoba


4. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenging and Coping Strategies
Mmapula Brendah Sekatane


5. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs
Adebimpe Lincoln


6. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught
Darko Opoku


7. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Eve Sandberg

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Delving deeply into the wellsprings of African entrepreneurship, Opoku and Sandberg’s volume shows the dynamics and variations of capitalism on the continent. It offers historical case studies of myriad ways to negotiate extraordinary challenges. Meticulously researched and deftly crafted, this landmark book will prompt wide reflection on development strategies.” (James H. Mittelman, Distinguished Scholar in Residence and University Professor Emeritus, American University, USA)