African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality,Used

Product DescriptionThis collection explores the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal and considers the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.Book Description"An enormously important contribution to our understanding of the full range of indigenous entrepreneurship in Africa from the smallscale trader in the informal sector to largescale enterprises. . . . Will put the importance of African entrepreneurs on the agenda of international development agencies, as well as African governments."D. Michael Warren, Iowa State UniversityPractical and penetrating, this collection explores the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africarural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informaland considers the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.ContentsEntrepreneurship in Africa: Traditional and Contemporary Paradigms, by Anitha Spring and Barbara E. McDadePart I. Entry into EntrepreneurshipCreatively Coping with Crisis: Entrepreneurs in the Second Economy of Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), by Janet MacGaffeyWhat Drives the SmallScale Enterprise Sector in Zimbabwe: Surplus Labor or Market Demand? by Lisa DanielsBlack Entrepreneurs in PostApartheid South Africa, by Okechukwu C. IheduruDifferentiation among SmallScale Enterprises: The Zambian Clothing Industry in Lusaka, by Mwango KasengelePart II. Entrepreneurs as Provisioners of the City and HouseholdWomen Entrepreneurs? Trade and the Gender Division of Labor in Nairobi, by Claire C. RobertsonOvercoming Challenges: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare, Zimbabwe, by Nancy E. HornEntrepreneurs and Family WellBeing: Agricultural and Trading Households in Cameroon, by Judith KriegerPart III. Entrepreneurial Management Styles and CharacteristicsA Historical Perspective on African Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Duala Experience in Cameroon, by Yvette MongaManagers and Their Entrepreneurs: Power and Authority in Indigenous Private Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria, by Chikwendu Christian UkaegbuEntrepreneurial Characteristics and Business Success in Artisan Enterprises in Ghana, by Barbara E. McDadePart IV. Public Policy and Private Initiative in Entrepreneurial DevelopmentPolicy Lessons from the Kenyan Experience in Promoting African Entrepreneurship in Commerce and Industry, by David HimbaraInstitutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya's Popular Music Industry, by Robert A. Blewett and Michael FarleyTrade Credit in Zimbabwe, by Marcel FafchampsPart V. Structural Adjustment and African EntrepreneursNegotiating Identities during Adjustment Programs: Women Microentrepreneurs in Urban Zimbabwe, by Mary Johnson OsirimThe Role of Entrepreneurship in Improving Policy Credibility in South Africa, by Willem NaudeAnita Spring, professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida, is the author or editor of four books, most recently Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi (1995).Barbara E. McDade, assistant professor of economic geography at the University of Florida, has served as chair of the Africa Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.