Is the African Entrepreneur Invincible?
A short while ago, i read an article titled Who is killing African Entrepreneurship? The article can be found at http://appfrica.com/2010/08/15/whos-killing-african-entrepreneurship/ and discusses the ideas of two well known writers. The ideas are interesting but fail to see the entrepreneur as a living breathing possibly conniving business animal. Let me explain. The survival instinct is very interesting in the sense that it can cause the release of energies or the harnessing of mental resources not common to everyone else. What this means for the African is that the vast majority of people that you meet whether they are employed or not have some business idea up their sleeve. The NGO driver that you talked about is not some passive observer in a complex net of western domination, rather he has a plan larger than you can imagine. He probably spends a considerable amount of time reading some of the documents from the organization and talking to the foreigners he ferries around the ci