List of Tables

List of Figures

About the Editor

Preface

Acknowledgements


Part1: Introduction: West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World

0 Introduction

1 West African Women Entrepreneurs in a Glocal World

Ulrike Schuerkens

2 Wealth Making in Marriage: Simbiat Abiola of Southwestern Nigeria, 1938-1992

Mutiat Titilope Oladejo


Part2: Processes Linked to the Creation of Women Enterprises

3 Women's Home-Based Entrepreneurship in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: Partnership Governance and Succession Planning

Haoua Badini Kone

4 Women’s “Invisible” Path to Empowerment in Cameroon: The Case of Digital Companies

Estelle Salla Bezanga

5 Analysis of the Motivations and Constraints of Pre-Existing Women's Groups in the Process of Creating a Collective Enterprise: The Case of the Creation of a Cooperative by a Women's Group in the West Region of Cameroon

Lolita Toche and Etienne St-Jean

6 The Auchan Brand in Senegal: A Source of Supply for Women Stallholders in Mbour ? A Link to Working-Class Consumers

Paul Mamba Diedhiou


Part3: Women Entrepreneurs and their Enterprises

7 Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal and the Wider Geographical Context of Africa and Europe

Ulrike Schuerkens

8 New Figures in Women's Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa:

Dakar Women Entrepreneurs Between the Global and the Local in Digitalisation

Abdul-Aziz Dembele

9 Relational Biographies of Women Social Entrepreneurs in Senegal

Sadio Ba Gning

10 Social Entrepreneurship in Dakar: Reasons for the Disaffiliation of Members of the Association of Women Seamstresses of the Marche Colobane (A.F.C.)

Aboubacar Diallo and Paul Mamba Diedhiou


Part4: Women Entrepreneurs and New Challenges

11 Participatory Financing in Senegal and its Role in Financing Female Entrepreneurship:

An Empirical Case Study

Mamadou Ndione, Marie-Jose Scotto, and Hicham Sbai

12 Factors in the Success and Failure of Public Policies to Promote Female Entrepreneurship in Cameroon

Brigitte Audrey Ekodo Bekono

13 Women Entrepreneurs in Cote d'Ivoire's Philanthropic Landscape

Jean-Claude Kouadio

14 Business Sustainability Adoption by Ghanaian Women Entrepreneurs

Philomena Asante, Kathy-Ann Fletcher, and Sharon L. Forbes


Part5: Concluding Remarks and Perspectives

15 Concluding Remarks and Perspectives

Ulrike Schuerkens

List of Contributors

Index