Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Toward African entrepreneurship and business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Globalization and the making of East Africa's Asian entrepreneurship networks / Chambi Chachage -- The Wangara factor in West African business history / Moses E. Ochonu -- Women entrepreneurs, gender, traditions, and the negotiation of power relations in colonial Nigeria / Gloria Chuku -- From artisanal brew to a booming industry : an economic history of pito : brewing among northern Ghanaian migrant women in southern Ghana / Isidore Lobnibe -- Interconnections between female entrepreneurship and technological innovation in the Nigerian context / Gloria Emeagwali -- Benin imperialism and entrepreneurship in northeast Yorubaland from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Uyilawa Usuanlele -- Taking control : Sonatrach and the Algerian decolonization process / Marta Musso -- Business after hours : the entrepreneurial ventures of Nigerian working class seamen / Lynn Schler -- Ace boxing promoter : "super human power," boxing, and sports entrepreneurship in colonial Nigeria, 1945-1960 / Michael J. Gennaro -- Healing works : Nana Kofi Donke and the business of indigenous therapeutics / Kwasi Konadu -- Entrepreneurs or wage laborers? The elusive homo economicus / Ralph Callebert -- The socioeconomic bases of the growth of microentrepreneurship in the Igede area of central Nigeria in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Mike Odugbo Odey -- Ethnicity, colonial expediency, and the development of retail business in colonial Turkana, northwestern Kenya, 1920-1950 / Martin S. Shanguhyia -- Epilogue: African entrepreneurship, past and present / Moses E. Ochonu.