Cultural entrepreneurship in Africa
By: edited Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea Schulz
Series: Routledge African studies -- 20; Routledge African studies -- 20.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781138851665
Subjects: Culture; Entrepreneurship; Businesspeople; Social entrepreneurship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Forging fortunes: new perspectives on entrepreneurial activities in Africa  -- Ute Röschenthaler and Dorothea Schulz -- Part 1.; title: Making moral communities.; title: Religious entrepreneurs in Ghana  -- Karen Lauterbach; title: Let's do good for Islam: two Muslim entrepreneurs in Niamey, Niger  -- Abdoulaye Sounaye; title: Entrepreneurial discipleship: cooking up women's Sufi leadership in Dakar  -- Joseph Hill; title: Social values and social entrepreneurship at the University of Makeni: an episode in the reconstruction of Sierra Leone  -- David O'Kane; title: Political entrepreneurship in Cameroon  -- Antoine Socpa -- Part 2.; title: Business, pleasure, leisure.; title: Entrepreneurship in South Africa's emergent township funeral industry  -- Rebekah Lee; title: Sand, sun and Toyotas: Tuareg entrepreneurship in desert tourism in Niger  -- Marko Scholze; title: "I took my life in my own hands" : the clandestine business of prostitution in Bamako  -- Inès Neubauer; title: Everyday entrepreneurs and big men: facets of entrepreneurship in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo  -- Silke Oldenburg -- Part 3.; title: Media and popular culture.; title: Entrepreneurial trajectories and figures of the Cameroonian mediascape  -- Olivier Atemsing Ndenkop; title: Aspiring to be praised with many names: success and obstacles in Malian media entrepreneurship  -- Ute Röschenthaler; title: The women behind the camera: female entrepreneurship in the southern Nigerian video film industry  -- Alessandro Jedlowksi; title: You have to be brave and fearless: video film entrepreneurs' practices and discourses in Tanzania  -- Claudia Böhme; title: Investiture and investment of a prominent singer: the (ad)venture of the Youssou Ndour Head Office -- Ibrahima Wane.