Entrepreneurship in Africa A Historical Approach [Hardcover]

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 explore 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.

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

Part One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks
1. Globalization and the Making of East Africas 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

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