The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private Enterprise (Hardcover)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press; 1st Am ed edition (August 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.com Sales Rank: #1,293,329 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

By	David Fick "Author: Africa: Continent of Econ... (Overland Park, Kansas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.