This collection explores the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa - rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal - and considers the vital role of entrepreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.

Practical and penetrating, this collection explore the varieties of entrepreneurship in Africa -- rural and urban, legal and illegal, formal and informal -- and considers the vital role of entrpreneurs in the economic development of the continent from Ghana, Negeria, and Cameroon to Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa.