Falola, Toyin. “Global African Business Leaders.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order, 1099–1115. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_54.

This (book) chapter examines the contribution of leading African business leaders on the continent. Despite the projection that an increased African population poses a great danger in terms of instability and conflict, the business leaders continue to build businesses that generate employment for millions of Africans. While it certainly constitutes a worry that many experts believe that the future of the continent is cloudy if activities continue in this fashion, it is not also improbable that some forward-looking, young individuals from the continent may use their ingenuity to help solve the crisis. Hence, the emergence of a business-oriented generation of Africans who have immediately swung into action to take advantage of the opportunities open to the continent. While doing this, these sets of Africans concentrate on economic activities that can maximize the population potential. They have recorded considerable progress in their business engagement and in making enviable contributions to the global economy’s advancement, using their African potentials. In this writing, a number of these African business leaders are examined, looking at the contributions they make.

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