Entrepreneurship in Africa a historical approach / edited by Moses E. Ochonu.
| Other author | Ochonu, Moses E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Toward African entrepreneurship and business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Globalization and the making of East Africa's Asian entrepreneurship networks / Chambi Chachage -- The Wangara factor in West African business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Women entrepreneurs, gender, traditions, and the negotiation of power relations in colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku -- From artisanal brew to a booming industry : an economic history of pito : brewing among northern Ghanaian migrant women in southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe -- Interconnections between female entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the Nigerian context / Gloria Emeagwali -- Benin imperialism and entrepreneurship in northeast Yorubaland from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Taking control : Sonatrach and the Algerian decolonization process / Marta Musso -- Business after hours : the entrepreneurial ventures of Nigerian working class seamen / Lynn Schler -- Ace boxing promoter : "super human power," boxing, and sports entrepreneurship in colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael J. Gennaro -- Healing works : Nana Kofi Donke and the business of indigenous therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu -- Entrepreneurs or wage laborers? The elusive homo economicus / Ralph Callebert -- The socioeconomic bases of the growth of microentrepreneurship in the Igede area of central Nigeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Mike Odugbo Odey -- Ethnicity, colonial expediency, and the development of retail business in colonial Turkana, northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950 / Martin S. Shanguhyia -- Epilogue: African entrepreneurship, past and present / Moses E. Ochonu. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Entrepreneurship in Africa Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2018 9780253032607 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017053534 |
| ISBN | 9780253032621 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |