The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise

by Tom Forrest

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748604928
• ISBN13: 9780748604920
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages