Challenges to African Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Opoku, Darko (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sandberg, Eve (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Africa-Politics and government.; Political economy.; Comparative politics.; Globalization.; Markets.; Entrepreneurship.; Development economics.; African Politics.; International Political Economy.; Comparative Politics.; Emerging Markets/Globalization.; Development Economics.
• Physical Description: XIII, 214 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319610009
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-61000-9

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.