Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa

<p>This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship, and identify the specifically new political and economic context within which individuals currently probe and invent novel forms of enterprise. Based on ethnographically contextualized life stories and case studies of female and male entrepreneurs, the volume offers a vivid and multi-perspectival account of their strategies, visions and ventures in domains as varied as religious proselytism, politics, tourism, media, music, prostitution, funeral organization, and education. African cultural entrepreneurs have a significant economic impact, attract the attention of large groups of people, serve as role models for many youths, and contribute to the formation of new popular cultures.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Forging Fortunes: New Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Activities in Africa <em>Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea Schulz </em><b>Part I: Making Moral Communities </b>2. Religious Entrepreneurs in Ghana <em>Karen Lauterbach </em>3. Let's Do Good for Islam: Two Muslim Entrepreneurs in Niamey, Niger <em> Abdoulaye Sounaye </em>4. Entrepreneurial Discipleship: Cooking up Women’s Sufi Leadership in Dakar <em>Joseph Hill </em>5. Social Values and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Makeni: An Episode in the Reconstruction of Sierra Leone <em>David O’Kane </em>6. Political Entrepreneurship in Cameroon <em>Antoine Socpa </em><b>Part II: Business, Pleasure, Leisure </b>7. Entrepreneurship in South Africa’s Emergent Township Funeral Industry <em>Rebekah Lee </em>8. Sand, Sun and Toyotas: Tuareg Entrepreneurship in Desert Tourism in Niger <em>Marko Scholze </em>9. "I Took My Life in My Own Hands": The Clandestine Business of Prostitution in Bamako <em>Inès Neubauer </em>10. Everyday Entrepreneurs and Big Men: Facets of Entrepreneurship in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo <em>Silke Oldenburg </em><b>Part III: Media and Popular Culture </b>11. Entrepreneurial Trajectories and Figures of the Cameroonian Mediascape <em>Olivier Atemsing Ndenkop </em>12. Aspiring to Be Praised with Many Names: Success and Obstacles in Malian Media Entrepreneurship <em>Ute Röschenthaler </em>13. The Women Behind the Camera: Female Entrepreneurship in the Southern Nigerian Video Film Industry <em>Alessandro Jedlowksi </em>14. You Have to Be Brave and Fearless: Video Film Entrepreneurs' Practices and Discourses in Tanzania <em>Claudia Böhme </em>15. Investiture and Investment of a Prominent Singer: The (Ad)venture of the Youssou Ndour Head Office <em>Ibrahima Wane</em></p>