Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa (Book Review)

Abstract

This book explores cultural entrepreneurship in a particular time and place: Africa since the 1990s. The editors, Ute Röschenthaler (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) and Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne) approach the topic from the perspective of cultural anthropology, their primary academic discipline. They focus the book on the African continent, as a large and diverse context where entrepreneurship has developed over time, but has also transformed significantly since the neoliberal development orthodoxy of the 1980s and 1990s imposed Structural Adjustment Programs that forced many people across Africa to seek new entrepreneurial strategies to sustain their livelihoods, build ..