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Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach
- Title
- Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach / edited by Moses E. Ochonu.
- Publication
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ochonu, Moses E.
- Description
- viii, 334 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Toward African entrepreneurship and business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Part I. Mercantile and artisanal networks. Globalization and the making of East Africa's Asian entrepreneurship networks / Chambi Chachage -- The Wangara factor in West African business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Part II. Female entrepreneurs and gendered innovation. Women entrepreneurs, gender, traditions, and the negotiation of power relations in colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku -- From artisanal brew to a booming industry : an economic history of pito brewing among northern Ghanaian migrant women in southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe -- Interconnections between female entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the Nigerian context / Gloria Emeagwali -- Part III. Entrepreneurship as political initiative. Benin imperialism and entrepreneurship in northeast Yorubaland from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Taking control : Sonatrach and the Algerian decolonization process / Marta Musso -- Part IV> Unconventional entrepreneurs. Business after hours : the entrepreneurial ventures of Nigerian working-class seamen / Lynn Schler -- Ace boxing promoter : "super human power," boxing, and sports entrepreneurship in colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael J. Gennaro -- Healing works : Nana Kofi Donke and the business of indigenous therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu -- Entrepreneurs or wage laborers? : the elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph Callebert -- Part V. African enterprise in the shadow of colonization. The socioeconomic bases of the growth of microentrepreneurship in the Igede area of central Nigeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Mike Odugbo Odey -- Ethnicity, colonial expediency, and the development of retail business in colonial Turkana, northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950 / Martin S. Shanguhyia -- Epilogue : African entrepreneurship, past and present / Moses E. Ochonu.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-596
- ISBN
- 9780253032607
- 0253032601
- 9780253034380
- 0253034388
- LCCN
- 2017051094
- OCLC
- 1007067650
- Title
- Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach / edited by Moses E. Ochonu.
- Publisher
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ochonu, Moses E., editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-596