African Entrepreneurship

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ISBN: 9780813015637 | 0813015634
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/1/1998

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Practical and penetrating, this collection explore the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa -- rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal -- and considers the vital role of entrpreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Negeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.

List of Tables

vii

(2)

Preface

1. Entrepreneurship in Africa: Traditional and Contemporary Paradigms

(36)

Anita Spring

Barbara E. McDade

Part I. Entry into Entrepreneurship

(72)

2. Creatively Coping with Crisis: Entrepreneurs in the Second Economy of Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

(14)

Janet MacGaffey

3. What Drives the Small-Scale Enterprise Sector in Zimbabwe: Surplus Labor or Market Demand?

(18)

Lisa Daniels

4. Black Entrepreneurs in Post-Apartheid South Africa

(24)

Okechukwu C. Iheduru

5. Differentiation among Small-Scale Enterprises: The Zambian Clothing Industry in Lusaka

(16)

Mwango Kasengele

Part II. Entrepreneurs as Provisioners of the City and the Household

109

(60)

6. Women Entrepreneurs? Trade and the Gender Division of Labor in Nairobi

109

(19)

Claire C. Robertson

7. Overcoming Challenges: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare, Zimbabwe

128

(19)

Nancy E. Horn

8. Entrepreneurs and Family Well-Being: Agricultural and Trading Households in Cameroon

147

(22)

Judith Krieger

Part III. Entrepreneurial Management Styles and Characteristics

169

(50)

9. A Historical Perspective on African Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Duala Experience in Cameroon

169

(12)

Yvette Monga

10. Managers and Their Entrepreneurs: Power and Authority in Indigenous Private Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria

181

(18)

Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu

11. Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Business Success in Artisan Enterprises in Ghana

199

(20)

Barbara E. McDade

Part IV. Public Policy and Private Initiative in Entrepreneurial Development

219

(58)

12. Policy Lessons from the Kenyan Experience in Promoting African Entrepreneurship in Commerce and Industry

219

(14)

David Himbara

13. Institutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya's Popular Music Industry

233

(18)

Robert A. Blewett

Michael Farley

14. Trade Credit in Zimbabwe

251

(26)

Marcel Fafchamps

Part V. Structural Adjustment and African Entrepreneurs

277

(36)

15. Negotiating Identities during Adjustment Programs: Women Microentrepreneurs in Urban Zimbabwe

277

(21)

Mary Johnson Osirim

16. The Role of Entrepreneurship in Improving Policy Credibility in South Africa

298

(15)

Willem Naude

Contributors

313

(4)

Index

317

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