{"product_id":"entrepreneurship-in-africa-9780253034380","title":"Entrepreneurship in Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eHot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History \/ Moses E. Ochonu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks \u003cbr\u003e1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa's Asian Entrepreneurship Networks \/ Chambi Chachage\u003cbr\u003e2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History \/ Moses E. Ochonu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation\u003cbr\u003e3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria \/ Gloria Chuku\u003cbr\u003e4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana \/ Isidore Lobnibe\u003cbr\u003e5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Nigerian Context \/ Gloria Emeagwali\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative\u003cbr\u003e6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century \/ Uyilawa Usuanlele\u003cbr\u003e7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process \/ Marta Musso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs\u003cbr\u003e8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working Class Seamen \/ Lynn Schler\u003cbr\u003e9. Ace Boxing Promoter: \"Super Human Power,\" Boxing, and Sports Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945–1960 \/ Michael Gennaro\u003cbr\u003e10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous Therapeutics \/ Kwasi Konadu\u003cbr\u003e11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus \/ Ralph Callebert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization\u003cbr\u003e12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries \/ Mike Odey\u003cbr\u003e13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920–1950 \/ Martin Shanguhyia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present \/ Moses E. Ochonu\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400579522903,"sku":"9780253034380","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253034380.jpg?v=1730471029","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/entrepreneurship-in-africa-9780253034380","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}