Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs

   • Eve Sandberg

   Pages 1-37

3. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana

   • Darko Opoku

   Pages 39-77

4. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria

   • Samuel O. Oloruntoba

   Pages 79-96

5. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenges and Coping Strategies

   • Mmapula Brendah Sekatane

   Pages 97-115

6. 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

7. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught

   • Darko Opoku

   Pages 147-178

8. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-First Century

   • Eve Sandberg

   Pages 179-202

9. Back Matter

   Pages 203-214

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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.

• African Entrepreneurship
• Coping strategies of African businesses
• African indigenous businesses
• African Capitalism
• Foreign business actors
• African governance
• Foreign donors
• African state actors
• global political economy

“Delving deeply into the wellsprings of African entrepreneurship, Opoku and Sandberg’s volume shows the dynamics and variations of capitalism on the continent. It offers historical case studies of myriad ways to negotiate extraordinary challenges. Meticulously researched and deftly crafted, this landmark book will prompt wide reflection on development strategies.” (James H. Mittelman, Distinguished Scholar in Residence and University Professor Emeritus, American University, USA)

• Africana Studies Department, Oberlin College Africana Studies Department, Oberlin, USA

  Darko Opoku

• Politics Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, USA

  Eve Sandberg

Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA. 


Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.

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