Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century [electronic resource] /
Opoku, Darko.editor.
Sandberg, Eve.editor.
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. Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA.  Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
1. Introduction to Analyzing African Entrepreneurs.- 2. Government-Business Relations and the Business Environment in Ghana.- 3. Ambivalent Union: State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Post-Independent Nigeria.- 4. South African Women Entrepreneurs: Challenging and Coping Strategies -- 5. Nigerian Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century: Corporate Social Responsibility Challenges and Coping Strategies of Nigerian Male and Female Entrepreneurs -- 6. Small-Scale Ghanaian Miners and the Textiles and Garment Industry in the Age of Chinese Economic Onslaught -- 7. Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.
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. Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA.  Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.
Africa—Politics and government.
Political economy.
Comparative politics.
Globalization.
Markets.
Entrepreneurship.
Development economics.
African Politics.
International Political Economy.
Comparative Politics.
Emerging Markets/Globalization.
Entrepreneurship.
Development Economics.