Young Entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made this collaborative and interdisciplinary research possible. The project involved participants from five institutions located in four countries ? Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia ? all of which provided invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective teams. In the field we were assisted by numerous research assistants, all of whom did an excellent job of guiding and translating where necessary. This book would not have been possible, though, without all the young people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made this collaborative and interdisciplinary research possible. The project involved participants from five institutions located in four countries ? Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia ? all of which provided invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective teams. In the field we were assisted by numerous research assistants, all of whom did an excellent job of guiding and translating where necessary. This book would not have been possible, though, without all the young people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major This book is the outcome of the research project ?Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies? (YEMP) which ran from October 2009 until June 2014. We are very grateful to the Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU) of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) for providing the funding (project number 09-059KU) that made this collaborative and interdisciplinary research possible. The project involved participants from five institutions located in four countries ? Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, and Zambia ? all of which provided invaluable support. The project country coordinators, Dr George Owusu at the University of Ghana, Rebecca Namatovu at Makerere University Business School (MUBS), and Dr Francis Chigunta at the University of Zambia, all competently lead their respective teams. In the field we were assisted by numerous research assistants, all of whom did an excellent job of guiding and translating where necessary. This book would not have been possible, though, without all the young people who welcomed us into their homes and workplaces, and generously gave us their time and shared their experiences with us. To all of them, and the adults whom we also interviewed, we owe the greatest thanks. The project supported six African PhD students who conducted their studies at their home universities but spent six months studying in Copenhagen. Many members of the YEMP team played key roles supervising them, either officially or unofficially, with thanks especially due to Dr S{rcedil}ren Jeppesen at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) and Professor Paul W. K. Yankson, Dr George Owusu and Dr Robert D. Osei at the University of Ghana. In addition, at the University of Zambia, Dr Augustus Kapungwe of the Department of Population Studies supervised the two Zambian PhD students, while at MUBS first the late Dr Warren Byabashaija followed by Professor Waswa Balunywa provided supervision for the two Ugandan PhD students. We are also very grateful to the Danish Fellowship Centre (DFC) for arranging the visits of the PhD students to Denmark and for providing them with an excellent environment in which to live. The Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, CBS, kindly provided the students with office space and ICT support. This conducive environment contributed to the PhD students forming a very supportive group that played a major role in almost all of them succeeding in completing their PhDs, without doubt one of the project?s major achievements and a core part of this book. Many of the chapters in this book were first presented either at our yearly workshops held in the project countries or by YEMP team members at our ?International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Global South? held in Copenhagen in June 2013.