African Entrepreneurs - 50 Success Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781787050907)

African Entrepreneurs, 50 Success Stories is a celebration of notable achievements of select Africans and how they have managed to excel in their chosen fields despite all odds. Each profile showcase the entrepreneur, area of endeavour as well as an interview in a question and answer format. Whether you are young or old, in business or aspiring to get your feet wet, this book will not disappoint you. It is as well good for Africans as it is for other races as the core-ingredients of successful entrepreneurs are universal. It will inspire you, it will enthrall you and it will motivate you. You will not only read about success stories, but how these savvy men and women evolved to be effectively where they are now. You will find that while some people are natural entrepreneurs, anyone can pursue entrepreneurship successfully if they put in what it takes. As Desiderius Erasmus, the Dutch Social Critic and Scholar once said, "Fortune favours the audacious." In short, the common denominator of all these entrepreneurs is - if you have a goal, you have to go for it and not wait for it to come to you.