Entrepreneurship in Africa

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria (IUP), which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression.

• Introduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History / Moses E. OchonuPart One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks 1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa's Asian Entrepreneurship Networks / Chambi Chachage2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History / Moses E. OchonuPart Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Nigerian Context / Gloria EmeagwaliPart Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century / Uyilawa Usuanlele7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process / Marta MussoPart Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working Class Seamen / Lynn Schler9. Ace Boxing Promoter: "Super Human Power," Boxing, and Sports Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945–1960 / Michael Gennaro10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous Therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph CallebertPart Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Mike Odey13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920–1950 / Martin ShanguhyiaEpilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present / Moses E. Ochonu

"An authentic, Africa-centered volume on entrepreneurship and a fresh departure from stale discussions of African economies that have often been carved from Western modes of explanation that trivialize African historical experiences and realities."—Adebayo Oyebade, author of, Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa