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Literature Review on Indigenous Entrepreneurship in Africa
Indigenous Communities: Issues and perspectives on youth entrepreneurship and career development in Africa
Background
There is no universally agreed definition of Indigenous Peoples, hence, remains an issue of global contestation. However, a preliminary working definition provided by the United Nations Working Group and African Development Bank Group on Indigenous Populations defined Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations as culturally distinct groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples (United Nations (UN), 2007; African Development Bank Group, 2016). In other words, Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures. They have unique ways of relating to people and the environment. At present, the Indigenous people form non-dominant sectors of society and are determined to preserve, develop, and transmit to future generations their ancestral territories, and their ethnic identity, as the basis of their continued existence as people, following their cultural patterns, social institutions and legal systems. Similarly, they have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live...download and read more.
