From the UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA

African Entrepreneurship:

Theory and Reality

Edited by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade

"An enormously important conribution to our understanding of the full range of indigenous entrepreneurship in Africa from the small-scale trade in the informal sector to large-scale enterprises....Will put the importance of African entrepreneurs on the agenda of international development agencies, as well as African governments."-----D. Michael Warren, Iowa State University.

African Entrepreneurship: Theory and Reality is a practical and penetrating collection of insightful studies that explore all varieties of African enterprise development--large and small, rural and urban, men and women in business, the formal and so-called informal sectors of the economy. It covers the African Continent from Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zaire and South Africa.

16 Chapters, 320 pages, tables, notes, references, index

CONTENTS by Topical Section

Ch. 1. Entrepreneurship in Africa: Traditional and Contemporary Paradigms, by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade

Part I. Entry into Entrepreneuship

Ch. 2. Creatively Coping with Crisis: Entrepreneurs in the Second Economy of Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), by Janet MacGaffey

Ch. 3. What Drives the Small-Scale Enterprise Sector in Zimbabwe: Surplus Labor or Market Demand? by Lisa Daniels

Ch. 4. Black Entrepreneurs in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Okechukwu C. Iheduru

Ch. 5. Differentiation among Small-Scale Enterprises: The Zambian Clothing Industry in Lusaka, by Mwango Kasengele

Part II. Entrepreneurs as Provisioners of the City and Household

Ch. 6. Women Entrepreneurs? Trade and the Gender Division of Labor in Nairobi, by Claire C. Robertson

Ch. 7. Overcoming Challenges: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare, Zimbabwe, by Nancy E. Horn

Ch. 8. Entrepreneurs and Family Well-Being: Agricultural and Trading Households in Cameroon, by Judith Krieger

Part III. Entrepreneurial Management Styles and Characteristics

Ch. 9. A Historical Perspective on African Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Duala Experience in Cameroon, by Yvette Monga

Ch.10. Managers and Their Entrepreneurs: Power and Authority in Indigenous Private Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria, by Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu

Ch.11. Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Business Success in Artisan Enterprises in Ghana, by Barbara E. McDade

Part IV. Public Policy and Private Initiative in Entrepreneurial Development

Ch.12. Policy Lessons from the Kenyan Experience in Promoting African Entrepreneurship in Commerce and Industry, by David Himbara

Ch.13. Institutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya's Popular Music Industry, by Robert A. Blewett and Michael Farley

Ch.14. Trade Credit in Zimbabwe, by Marcel Fafchamps

Part V. Structural Adjustment and African Entrepreneurs

Ch. 15. Negotiating Identities during Adjustment Programs: Women Microentrepreneurs in Urban Zimbabwe, by Mary Johnson Osirim

Ch. 16. The Role of Entrepreneurship in Improving Policy Credibility in South Africa, by Willem Naude

Contributors: Robert Blewett, Lisa Daniels, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Farley, David Himbara, Nancy Horn, Okechukwu Iheduru, Mwango Kasengele, Judith Krieger, Janet MacGaffey, Barbara E. McDade, Yvette Monga, Willem Naude, Mary Osirim, Claire C. Robertson, Anita Spring, Chikwendu Ukaegbu.

Editors

Dr. McDade (left) and Dr. Spring

Anita Spring is professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of four books, mostly recently Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi (1995). She was formerly head of the Women in Development Division of the UN's Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome.

Barbara E. McDade is associate professor of Economic Geography and African Studies at the University of Florida. She has served as chair of the Africa Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, a member of the Selection Committee for Fulbright Senior Fellows, and is currently Chair of the Advisory Board of the Florida/West Africa Linkage Institute. She has also written on industrial development in Africa, "Entrepreneurial Networking: Industrial Estates in Ghana" (1997) in Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 88:3, pp. 262-272, co-authored w. Edward J. Malecki.
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