The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise [Hardcover]

Tom Forrest (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1994

The Advance of African Capital provides the most detailed and extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business yet published. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria, giving profiles of the country's key entrepreneurs.

Not only an invaluable digest of Nigeria's business activity, 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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A mine of information about many of the individuals who have played important roles in Nigeria's domestic economy as well as its international trade... For active businessmen as well, here is an opportunity to gain substantial insights into ways in which business is carried out in Nigeria. An admirably researched and important study which will be of intersetto development economists and historians alike.S E Stockwell, Kings College London, African History. This informative andscholarly book provides an extremely important account of recent Nigerianeconomic history. [..] I found this book very interesting and useful. Itis certainly well worth acquiring, and can be recommended to historians,economists and po A mine of information about many of the individuals who have played important roles in Nigeria's domestic economy as well as its international trade... For active businessmen as well, here is an opportunity to gain substantial insights into ways in which business is carried out in Nigeria. An admirably researched and important study which will be of intersetto development economists and historians alike.S E Stockwell, Kings College London, African History. This informative andscholarly book provides an extremely important account of recent Nigerianeconomic history. [..] I found this book very interesting and useful. Itis certainly well worth acquiring, and can be recommended to historians,economists and po --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Tom Forrest is Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, and author of Politics and Economic Development in Nigeria.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press; 1st Am ed edition (August 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813915627
• ISBN-13: 978-0813915623
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > History > Africa > Nigeria

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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable digest of Nigerias business activity, April 6, 2002

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This review is from: The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise (Hardcover)

Professor Tom Forrest's The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise provides a detailed and extensive account of medium- and large-scale African business. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines the growth of private enterprise in Nigeria, giving profiles of the country's key entrepreneurs.

Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, Forrest examines the strategies and patterns of development employed by businesspeople from the colonial period to the present. Through a series of highly readable case studies, he provides a broad picture of the Nigerian private enterprise's forms of capital accumulation and advances in trade, transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance, and other services. The case studies are set within the context of changing economic opportunities, shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and attitudes toward private business and the state.

Not only an invaluable digest of Nigeria's business activity, Forrest's study also challenges the existing views about African enterprise and is highly relevant to policymakers concerned with economic development.