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"An authentic, Africa-centered volume on entrepreneurship and a fresh departure from stale discussions of African economies that have often been carved from Western modes of explanation that trivialize African historical experiences and realities."—Adebayo Oyebade, author of, Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa



Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History / Moses E. Ochonu

Part One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks
1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa's Asian Entrepreneurship Networks / Chambi Chachage
2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History / Moses E. Ochonu

Part Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation
3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku
4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe
5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Nigerian Context / Gloria Emeagwali

Part Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative
6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century / Uyilawa Usuanlele
7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process / Marta Musso

Part Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs
8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working Class Seamen / Lynn Schler
9. Ace Boxing Promoter: "Super Human Power," Boxing, and Sports Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945–1960 / Michael Gennaro
10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous Therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu
11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph Callebert

Part Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization
12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Mike Odey
13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920–1950 / Martin Shanguhyia

Epilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present / Moses E. Ochonu

Entrepreneurship in Africa

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780253034380, 978-0253034380
      ISBN10: 0253034388

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "An authentic, Africa-centered volume on entrepreneurship and a fresh departure from stale discussions of African economies that have often been carved from Western modes of explanation that trivialize African historical experiences and realities."—Adebayo Oyebade, author of, Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa



      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History / Moses E. Ochonu

      Part One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks
      1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa's Asian Entrepreneurship Networks / Chambi Chachage
      2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History / Moses E. Ochonu

      Part Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation
      3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku
      4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe
      5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Nigerian Context / Gloria Emeagwali

      Part Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative
      6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century / Uyilawa Usuanlele
      7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process / Marta Musso

      Part Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs
      8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working Class Seamen / Lynn Schler
      9. Ace Boxing Promoter: "Super Human Power," Boxing, and Sports Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945–1960 / Michael Gennaro
      10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous Therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu
      11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph Callebert

      Part Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization
      12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Mike Odey
      13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920–1950 / Martin Shanguhyia

      Epilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present / Moses E. Ochonu

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