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This book engages with the idea and philosophy of entrepreneurship in Africa from the position of several Indigenous communities in Africa. It advances that there is poverty in the current understanding and implementation of entrepreneurship in Africa, which is couched within a Eurocentric frame. It is argued that far from liberating Indigenous epistemologies toward the creation of sustainable entrepreneurship leading to, among others, socio-economic development, such a Eurocentrically monologous idea of entrepreneurship is limiting and limited. It is now time to transcend the Eurocentric monologue of entrepreneurship to an understanding of how Indigenous communities in various parts of Africa conceptualize and practice entrepreneurship, leading to inclusive and meaningful socio-economic development.
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator of the intercontinental research project on Indigenous Knowledge and Entrepreneurship in Africa and founder of the Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network, at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Inocent Moyo is SARCHi Research Chair in Borders and the African Continental Free Trade Area and Full Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.
Zainab Monisola Olaitan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada. She is a political scientist with expertise in gender and politics, political theory, international politics, African studies, and peace and conflict studies.
Jabulile H Mzimela is a lecturer in Human Geography, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.