Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa

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This book engages with the idea and philosophy of entrepreneurship in Africa from the position of several Indigenous communities in Africa. It advances that there is poverty in the current understanding and implementation of entrepreneurship in Africa, which is couched within a Eurocentric frame. It is argued that far from liberating Indigenous epistemologies toward the creation of sustainable entrepreneurship leading to, among others, socio-economic development, such a Eurocentrically monologous idea of entrepreneurship is limiting and limited. It is now time to transcend the Eurocentric monologue of entrepreneurship to an understanding of how Indigenous communities in various parts of Africa conceptualize and practice entrepreneurship, leading to inclusive and meaningful socio-economic development.

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Inocent Moyo is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.
is an Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, and Extraordinary Professor, Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa, South Africa.
is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University, Canada and a Research Associate at the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
is a lecturer in Human Geography, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.