Hello Professor Ochonu,
Its been a while.I hope to work towards this.
Thanks,
With regards,
Mike
On Friday, 29 May 2015, 15:17, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Chambi, we have a rolling deadline but we hope to have all the essays in by October or November. It would be great to have a contribution from you. Please send me an abstract and a title and you can then work on submitting the full paper in the fall.
Best,
Moses
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:22 PM, 'Chambi Chachage' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Moses, when is the deadline?
From: Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com>
To: USAAfricaDialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 2:56 AM
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CALL FOR AUTHORS
--Call for AuthorsEntrepreneurship in African HistoryOverviewWe seek authors to contribute chapters to an edited volume titled Entrepreneurship in African History. The volume is a unique, path breaking publication that seeks to recover and reconstruct Africa's rich histories of individual and group entrepreneurial activities and investments. It will document and cast new light on indigenous enterprise and entrepreneurial leadership in African history. The project is a major intervention in the broad field of African economic history and seeks to rethink the field beyond familiar studies of African economies and Africa's economic entanglements.Unlike most works of African economic history that focus on forces, structures, and nodes of production and exchange as well as political economy, this edited volume will inaugurate a subfield focusing on African business and entrepreneurial history, establishing the methodological, theoretical, and analytical frameworks that should guide scholarly inquiries into indigenous entrepreneurial activities and business investments in precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa.Entrepreneurship in African History will be published by a major American University Press with a reputation for publishing quality works in African Studies.Topical Scope of ContributionsWe define entrepreneurship capaciously to encompass a wide array of business investments and activities that may not fit into traditional definitions of the term. In the context of the African past, we insist on defining entrepreneurs simply and broadly as people who ventured into or inherited practices that provided a service or benefit to themselves, to others, and to society.It is hoped that several essays in the volume will illuminate conventional entrepreneurial activities in fields such as trading, mining, farming, herding, goods distribution, manufacturing, craftsmanship, and other value creating endeavors. But we also understand entrepreneurship to include a range of unconventional social activities requiring organization, leadership, skill, and talent. In this expansive definitional frame, we can imagine certain kinds of war-making, traditional healing practices, hunting, sports and other forms of organized recreation, praise-singing, artisanal practices, music, traditional storytelling, scribal arts, traditional intellection and knowledge production, technological invention, craft guilds, among others, as entrepreneurial activities and value-creating enterprises.The project will document and analyze two important and interrelated historical phenomena:1. Examples and case studies of successful — and failed — indigenous African entrepreneurial initiative and creativity in the precolonial, colonial, and early postcolonial periods of African history. Such initiatives may be individual or community-driven and may be a business venture or a commercialized creative endeavor. They may be gendered initiatives or niche artisanal undertakings that blossomed into a wealth- and value-creating industries.2. Profiles and professional biographies of proven business and professional leaders and pioneers across the continent in the historical periods of our interest. We define "business leadership" here broadly to include African agents, thinkers, visionaries, chiefs, and political and social actors who may not have been "businessmen" or "entrepreneurs" in the strict sense of the words but who nonetheless conceived, led, or helped nurture successful entrepreneurial and business initiatives in the periods of our focus. Biographical essays in the volume may focus on entrepreneurial families, clans, groups, and communities in natal or diasporic/migratory settings.Our aim is to document and establish a clear pattern of African commercial creativity and entrepreneurship stretching back many centuries and generations, and to project these models of indigenous enterprise and homegrown commercial creativity as a historical backdrop for contemporary entrepreneurship on the continent.Papers may be framed in different or multiple methodologies and disciplinary traditions. They may utilize diverse resources such as archives, oral histories, material culture, visual objects, ethnography, quantitative sources, and other sources in the social sciences and humanities. The essays in the book will provide incisive analysis and empirical material that will be useful for instructional, referential, informational, and policymaking purposes.Editorial LeadershipMoses Ochonu, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will provide editorial leadership for the volume.Submission GuidelinesPlease submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words for your paper. If you already have a full paper that you deem suitable for the volume, please feel free to send it. Also include a brief biography, indicating affiliation and major publications. Prospective authors whose submissions are selected will be asked to submit a full draft of their papers within six months. Upon review, authors may be asked to revise and/or shorten their papers. We will take care of final copyediting prior to publication but authors will be responsible for carrying out final post-copyediting corrections.In selecting essays for the publications, we will strive for topical, biographical, gender, and regional diversity. We will also balance depth and breadth. Tentatively, we envisage that the book will have three sections, with each section containing essays under the following rubrics:1. Historical biographies of entrepreneurs2. Indigenous entrepreneurship in historical businesses and industrial sectors3. Social, artistic, and intellectual entrepreneurshipElectronic submissions are preferred and can be sent, along with any inquiries, to Professor Moses Ochonu at moses.ochonu@vanderbilt.edu. If you prefer to send a hard copy submission, please let us know and we will provide a mailing address.--There is enough in the world for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed.
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