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The Advance of African Capital : The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise / Tom Forrest.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748604920
  • 9781474496889
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ADVANCE OF AFRICAN CAPITAL 1900-1992: AN OVERVIEW -- 3. EARLY BUSINESS PROFILES -- 4. LAGOS ENTERPRISES -- 5. THE RISE OF TWO CONGLOMERATES -- 6. ENTERPRISES IN ANAMBRA STATE -- 7. ABA AND IMO STATE ENTERPRISES -- 8. THE ADVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KANO AND KADUNA -- 9. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE ADVANCE OF AFRICAN CAPITAL 1900-1992: AN OVERVIEW -- 3. EARLY BUSINESS PROFILES -- 4. LAGOS ENTERPRISES -- 5. THE RISE OF TWO CONGLOMERATES -- 6. ENTERPRISES IN ANAMBRA STATE -- 7. ABA AND IMO STATE ENTERPRISES -- 8. THE ADVANCE OF INDIGENOUS CAPITAL IN KANO AND KADUNA -- 9. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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