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10. The New Age Entrepreneurs of Africa: The Men Who Founded Lions

Author : Ebimo Amungo

Published in: The Rise of the African Multinational Enterprise (AMNE)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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There is a new crop of entrepreneurs in Africa who are the driving force behind the African Multinational Enterprise. These are men and women who looked beyond Africa’s limitation and challenges to found some of the largest corporate entities on the continent. They are visionaries, activists and salesmen. They are managers of complex relationships, innovators and risk takers who are unafraid of making humongous capital investments. They are magnets of capital, redistributors of wealth and agents of diversification. They are the warriors who navigated Africa’s business jungles to oversee the birth, growth and expansion of the African Lions.

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Title: The New Age Entrepreneurs of Africa: The Men Who Founded Lions
Author: Ebimo Amungo
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: The Rise of the African Multinational Enterprise (AMNE)
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33095-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-33096-5

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33096-5_10