Dear Moses:
Jorg Wiesgratz, one of the editors of ROAPE, last week invited me to write a riposte to your ostensibly provocative blog post. As I told him, I don't know if I'll be able send him the write-up due to several distractions I have to resolve soon or else I drown.
In the meantime, I'd suggest that, in addition to the reference Biko suggested, you'd benefit by perusing the piece in the link below that compares and contrasts the Dangote (one iroko in the desert) model with the Innoson (communal, ubuntu thriving forest of many luxuriant trees) model of capitalism/business/ entrepreneurship. There's a link in the article to the famous TED Talk on Igbo venture capital by the guy at Harvard Business School and other video clips that you may find enriching.
*Igbo Apprenticeship System: Dangote Group, Innoson Motors and Ubuntu*
Regards,
Okey Iheduru
On Tue, 26 May 2020, 11:03 am 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series, <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
--Interesting opinion, thanks for sharing. You are right that entrepreneurship is not separate from other spheres of social and economic activities in Africa and so Western models could not be transplanted to Africa with their false emphases on assumptions of the free market and relative autonomy from the meddling state.You could have cited the robust critique of Weberian modernization theory by Jerry Dibua as an original interpretation of the role of the state as an 'activist' in economic development especially in the West where subsidies and bail-outs, tax breaks and corporate welfare handouts from the state are the order of the day. You could have reflected on the fact that the state fails to be an activist in Africa but also actively sabotages entrepreneurship by looting the economy and stashing the loot abroad, by persecuting indigenous entrepreneurs and promoting foreign ones, by failing to provide infrastructures like technology, transportation, and security and social services like education and healthcare and by refusing to fund research and development. As China shows, even the socialist state plays a major role in entrepreneurship development.Your Mazruist idea that warring traditions are also forms of entrepreneurship is analogical with trade wars between states today but the view that warriors might be entrepreneurs may not sit well with evidence of war crimes. You could have used musicians, Nollywood artists, textile weavers, carvers, preachers, and architects to illustrate your point better than invoke war as an entrepreneurial tradition in Africa of all places.While you lambasted doctoral students in Africas for seeking appropriate theoretical frameworks for their dissertations, you concluded by proposing the search for such a framework to study entrepreneurship in Africa. Why? Although you mentioned some female contributors to your book, you did not take the hint to reflect adequately on market women the ways that Ifi Amadiume and Oyeronke Oyewumi, among others, would. Instead, you chose the picture of a male craftsman as the patriarchal frame for your reflection on militarism as entrepreneurship. Why? Some African cultures are said to be more entrepreneurial; than others, what do you think beyond the mentioning of richest individuals from different cultures? Are you familiar with work by Agozino and Anyanike on 'Imu Ahia: Traditional Igbo Business School and Global Commerce Culture' with an explanation that apprenticeship is the engine for the reproduction of entrepreneurship in Africa?BikoOn Tuesday, 26 May 2020, 09:26:14 GMT-4, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:--Here is a link to my think piece on African entrepreneurship, which was just published online by the journal, Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE). This is my contribution to the journal's ongoing series on capitalism in Africa. Some of these arguments/analyses extend or mirror those I made in the introduction and epilogue of my edited book, Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach (Indiana University Press, 2018). I intend the piece to be a provocation to debate and discussion, so your feedback is welcome.
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