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Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

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Editors:
  1. Darko Opoku

    1. Africana Studies Department, Oberlin College Africana Studies Department, Oberlin, USA

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  2. Eve Sandberg

    1. Politics Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

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  • 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

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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.




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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs

    • Eve Sandberg
    Pages 1-37

  3. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana

    • Darko Opoku
    Pages 39-77

  4. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria

    • Samuel O. Oloruntoba
    Pages 79-96

  5. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Coping Strategies

    • Mmapula Brendah Sekatane
    Pages 97-115

  6. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs

    • Adebimpe Lincoln
    Pages 117-146

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

    • Darko Opoku
    Pages 147-178

  8. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century

    • Eve Sandberg
    Pages 179-202

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 203-214
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Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Africana Studies Department, Oberlin College Africana Studies Department, Oberlin, USA

    Darko Opoku

  • Politics Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

    Eve Sandberg

About the editors

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


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

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