Advance of African Capital
The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 2021
256 pages
978-1-4744-9688-9 (ISBN)
Description
Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, this study is the most detailed, most extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. It examines the strategies and patterns employed by business people from the colonial period to the present day and provides profiles of Nigeria's key entrepreneurs. Not only a valuable digest of business activities, this important study also challenges existing views about African enterprise and is highly relevant to policy-makers concerned with economic development.
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- METHOD
- ORGANISATION
- A NOTE ON CURRENCY
- 2 THE ADVANCE OF AFRICAN CAPITAL 1990-1992: AN OVERVIEW
- 1900-1945
- Commerce
- Agriculture
- Road Transport
- Immigrant Groups
- 1945-1970
- Finance
- 1970-1990
- Oil Industry
- Airlines
- Shipping
- Large-scale Farming
- Fishing
- Indian Enterprise
- Banking
- Overseas Investment
- 3 EARLY BUSINESS PROFILES
- INDUSTRIALISTS
- TRADERS AND TRANSPORTERS
- POLITICIANS/BUSINESSMEN
- CONCLUSION
- 4 LAGOS ENTERPRISES
- THE GROWTH OF LAGOS
- BUSINESS GROUPS
- Older Groups
- Younger Groups (Post-1970)
- SPECIALIST ENTERPRISES
- Younger Specialist Enterprises
- INVESTORS, INTERMEDIARIES AND ENTREPRENEURS
- CONCLUSION
- 5 THE RISE OF TWO CONGLOMERATES
- THE IBRU ORGANISATION
- 1956-1970
- 1970-1982
- 1982 to the Present
- THE MODANDOLA GROUP
- CONCLUSION
- 6 ENTERPRISES IN ANAMBRA STATE
- ONITSHA ENTERPRISES
- THE SILENT INDUSTRIALISATION OF NNEWI
- Two Case Studies from Nnewi
- CONCLUSION
- 7 ABA AND IMO STATE ENTERPRISES
- THE GROWTH OF ABA
- Shoes and Garments
- ABA AND ABIRIBA
- ABIRIBAN ENTERPRISES IN ABA
- Short Profiles
- OTHER ENTERPRISES IN ABA
- IMO STATE ENTERPRISES
- CONCLUSION
- 8 THE ADVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KANO AND KADUNA
- KANO
- Enterprises in Kano
- Brief Profiles
- KADUNA
- Kaduna Enterprises
- CONCLUSION
- 9 CONCLUSION
- ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIGINS AND PATTERNS
- ENTERPRISE GROWTH, GROUPS AND DIVERSIFICATION
- MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS CULTURE
- TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITION AND CAPACITIES
- SUCCESSION AND SURVIVAL
- WEALTH, HOME COMMUNITY, TITLES AND PHILANTHORPY
- FORMS AND PATTERNS OF ADVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CAPITAL
- THE IMPACT OF THE OIL BOOM AND THE STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMME
- THE STATE AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
