Youth Entrepreneurship

Description

This book investigates the prospects of Africa’s sustainable industrialization, with an emphasis on youth entrepreneurship and the mechanisms in place to support both industrial and corporate entrepreneurs. The volume addresses two specific issues; first, industrialization and youth entrepreneurship and secondly, youth entrepreneurship training and education. The emphasis on youth entrepreneurship to drive sustainable industrialization in Africa is driven by three points: first, Africa’s industrialization is still at its inception with severely limited existing stock of entrepreneurial talents, which makes it imperative to look to the continent’s bulging youth population – the “population dividend” for the needed supply of successive generations of entrepreneurs. Secondly, sustainable industrialization would have to be oriented to “green”, “ICT” and “inclusive” growth which calls for a change in entrepreneurs’ attitudes. Finally, at the centre of the “Africa Rising” narrative is a budding new “cheetah” generation of young entrepreneurs who are highly educated, professional and motivated by the need to set up new business models and practices to compete in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This volume forms part of an Education for Sustainable Development in Africa (ESDA) book series involving the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and 8 partner African universities running Master’s Programs in sustainable development. The book series is intended to serve primarily as undergraduate and graduate instruction materials for courses on sustainable development in Africa, as well as policy input to key developmental issues in Africa.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Africa’s Challenge for Sustainable Industrialization
Masifumo Nagao

Chapter 2
African Entrepreneurs and Africa Rising: Foot Prints of the New Captains of Industry in Africa
Horman Chitonge

Chapter 3
Industrial Development and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: The Case of the African Development Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa (JFYA) Strategy
Amadou Boly, Amadou B. Diallo, & Keiko Takei

Chapter 4
Investing in Sustainable Development? Prospects and Limits of Green Entrepreneurship in Zambia
Orleans Mfune

Chapter 5
Entrepreneurship Development, Research and Education for Sustainable Industrialization in Kenya
Muranga Njihia

Chapter 6
Role of the University for Africa’s Sustainable Development
Deresh Ramjugernath

Chapter 7
Youth Entrepreneurship Education and Training (EET) Programmes: Realizing the Demographic Dividend
Christine Lynn Allison

Chapter 8
Youth Unemployment in Kenya: Incorporating Entrepreneurial and Transferable Skills in Education
Jackline Nyerere

Chapter 9
The Savings and Investment Practices of Economically Vulnerable Youth in Tanzania
Masanche Nelson Nkhoma & Tamara Ginger Weiss

Chapter 10
Innovative Models in Youth Entrepreneurship Education in Africa: Taking a Young Person from Italic to Bold
Elli Yiannakaris

Chapter 11
The Role of a University-based Incubation Centre: The Experience of the University of Felix Houphouet Boigny
(Cote d’Ivoire)
Malik Bakayoko

Conclusion
The Future of African Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Industrialization
Farai Kapfudzaruwa