MACMILLAN Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

Product Description 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. Review “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) From the Back Cover 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. About the Author Darko Opoku is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA.  Eve Sandberg is Professor in the Politics Department at Oberlin College, USA.