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African
Entrepreneurship Edited by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade Practical and penetrating, this collection explores the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa--rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal--and considers the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa. Part I. Entry into Entrepreneurship Creatively Coping with Crisis: Entrepreneurs in the Second Economy of Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo), by Janet MacGaffey What Drives the Small-Scale Enterprise Sector in Zimbabwe: Surplus Labor or Market Demand? by Lisa Daniels Black Entrepreneurs in Post-Apartheid South Africa, by Okechukwu C. Iheduru Differentiation among Small-Scale Enterprises: The Zambian Clothing Industry in Lusaka, by Mwango Kasengele Part II. Entrepreneurs as Provisioners of the City and Household Women Entrepreneurs? Trade and the Gender Division of Labor in Nairobi, by Claire C. Robertson Overcoming Challenges: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare, Zimbabwe, by Nancy E. Horn Entrepreneurs and Family Well-Being: Agricultural and Trading Households in Cameroon, by Judith Krieger Part III. Entrepreneurial Management Styles and Characteristics A Historical Perspective on African Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Duala Experience in Cameroon, by Yvette Monga Managers and Their Entrepreneurs: Power and Authority in Indigenous Private Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria, by Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Business Success in Artisan Enterprises in Ghana, by Barbara E. McDade Part IV. Public Policy and Private Initiative in Entrepreneurial Development Policy Lessons from the Kenyan Experience in Promoting African Entrepreneurship in Commerce and Industry, by David Himbara Institutional Constraints on Entrepreneurship in Kenya's Popular Music Industry, by Robert A. Blewett and Michael Farley Trade Credit in Zimbabwe, by Marcel Fafchamps Part V. Structural Adjustment and African Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities during Adjustment Programs: Women Microentrepreneurs in Urban Zimbabwe, by Mary Johnson Osirim The Role of
Entrepreneurship in Improving Policy Credibility in South
Africa, by Willem Naude Anita Spring, professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida, is the author or editor of four books, most recently Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi (1995). Barbara E. McDade, assistant professor of economic geography at the University of Florida, has served as chair of the Africa Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. 1998. 320 pp. 6 X 9. 41 tables, notes, references, index. ISBN 0-8130-1563-4 Cloth, $55.00
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