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Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. Introduction: Toward African Entrepreneurship and Business History / Moses E. Ochonu Part One: Mercantile and Artisanal Networks 1. Globalization and the Making of East Africa’s Asian Entrepreneurship Networks / Chambi Chachage 2. The Wangara Factor in West African Business History / Moses E. Ochonu Part Two: Female Entrepreneurs and Gendered Innovation 3. Women Entrepreneurs, Gender, Traditions, and the Negotiation of Power Relations in Colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku 4. From Artisanal Brew to a Booming Industry: An Economic History of Pito Brewing among Northern Ghanaian Migrant Women in Southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe 5. Interconnections between Female Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation in the Nigerian Context / Gloria Emeagwali Part Three: Entrepreneurship as Political Initiative 6. Benin Imperialism and Entrepreneurship in North East Yorubaland From the Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century / Uyilawa Usuanlele 7. Taking Control: Sonatrach and the Algerian Decolonization Process / Marta Musso Part Four: Unconventional Entrepreneurs 8. Business After Hours: The Entrepreneurial Ventures of Nigerian Working Class Seamen / Lynn Schler 9. Ace Boxing Promoter: “Super Human Power,” Boxing, and Sports Entrepreneurship in Colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael Gennaro 10. Healing Works: Nana Kofi Donk and the Business of Indigenous Therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu 11. Entrepreneurs or Wage Laborers? The Elusive Homo Economicus / Ralph Callebert Part Five: African Enterprise in the Shadow of Colonization 12. The Socioeconomic Bases of Growth of Microentrepreneurship in the Igede Area of Central Nigeria in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Mike Odey 13. Ethnicity, Colonial Expediency, and the Development of Retail Business in Colonial Turkana, Northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950 / Martin Shanguhyia Epilogue: African Entrepreneurship, Past and Present / Moses E. Ochonu
