Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are re-living the developments of 2014 and the first quarter of 2015. News headlines have been mixed as usual – from Nigeria's historical election ousting a hitherto dominant party, amidst the government's efforts in tackling Islamic Militants' insurgency in...

The purpose of our paper is to provide a commentary on the key challenges facing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) international tourism marketing strategies. The rationale for the paper is that tourism, both domestic and international, and in all its genres...

Objectives - This exploratory study draws attention to "sibling" as opposed to the traditional familial orientations that have pervaded the discourse in family business research. The paper poses three key questions revolving around the current trend in family business research: (i) how does...

Objectives – Using a single case study of the Global Soap Project, a social enterprise founded by Derreck Kayongo, an African Immigrant resident in the USA, this paper undertakes a discursive analysis of African immigrant entrepreneurship in diasporic contexts. This is in order to probe the...

This paper discusses the findings of a study conducted in Kampala, Uganda, which evaluated the cultural dynamics at play among microenterprises. A cross section of 120 informal businesses was surveyed between November 2006 and March 2007. A mixture of focus group interviews and self-administered...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to highlight the challenges of property development and management in northern Nigeria drawing upon the experiences of Bauchi, Gombe and Kaduna states.Design/methodology/approach - Based on a longitudinal evaluation of these trends and challenges, this...