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Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa
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15 September 2026

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.
SCIENCE / Indigenous Knowledge & Perspectives, Indigenous peoples in the Americas: religions, belief systems, cultural worldviews and spiritual beliefs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Sustainability, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity
Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba 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.
Inocent Moyo is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.
Zainab Monisola Olaitan 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.
Jabulile H Mzimela is a lecturer in Human Geography, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.