Family Businesses in Subsaharan Africa

The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
Africa is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynamism and informal social adaptation driving the last decade of African development.

Thirteen million people in the United States—roughly one in ten workers—own a business. And yet rates of business ownership among African Americans are much lower and have been so during the last 100 years.