Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

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.

Extends the under-researched field of African capitalism Presents an overview of the constraints placed on indigenous African entrepreneurs in the 21st century Focuses on both the pressures facing African business actors and their coping mechanisms

Autorentext
Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA.
Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs.- 2. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana.- 3. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria.- 4. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenging and Coping Strategies.- 5. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs.- 6. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught.- 7. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.