Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

Description

This volume offers an overview of the critical challenges faced by aspiring African entrepreneurs and their coping strategies to sustain and develop their businesses. Contributors to this volume detail the constraints placed on African entrepreneurs through rich case studies and challenge African leaders and international donors to review their own behaviors if they hope for African entrepreneurs to succeed. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs (Eve Sandberg)....Pages 1-37 Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana (Darko Opoku)....Pages 39-77 Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria (Samuel O. Oloruntoba)....Pages 79-96 South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Coping Strategies (Mmapula Brendah Sekatane)....Pages 97-115 Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs (Adebimpe Lincoln)....Pages 117-146 Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught (Darko Opoku)....Pages 147-178 Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century (Eve Sandberg)....Pages 179-202 Back Matter ....Pages 203-214