Entrepreneurship in Africa

<p>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 explores 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.</p>