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The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: evidence from Nairobi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: John C. Harris --- Division of Regional and City Planning, College of Architecture, USAThis paper investigates two agglomeration economies, innovation and production specialisation, within Nairobi's handicraft sector. The paper asks if and by what mechanics urban informality might interfere with these important potential outcomes of clustered production. A hundred and two semi-structured interviews... -
New insights on trust, honour and networking in informal entrepreneurship: Zimbabwean malayishas as informal remittance couriers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Phefumula Nyoni --- Department of Anthropology,The paper focuses on the utility of the concepts of trust and honour in understanding relations among Zimbabwean remittance couriers who are popularly known as “malayishas”. Trust and honour are explored in relation to how they produce and sustain a... -
Remittances, mobile phones and informality: Insights from Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Nathanael Ojong --- Department of Business Administration, CanadaResearch on mobile phones abound. However, the use of the mobile phone as an informal value transfer mechanism has received little attention. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna in academic literature by focusing on the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of... -
Religious Beliefs and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in Africa: A Case Study of the Informal Sector in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Rebecca Namatovu --- Makerere University Business School, Uganda Samuel Dawa --- Makerere University Business School, Uganda Adeyinka Adewale --- Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK Fiona Mulira --- Makerere University Business School, UgandaReligion plays a major role in Africa’s polity and its influence on the business landscape of the continent has been acknowledged in literature. This study contributes to the discourse by investigating and explaining how religious beliefs shape entrepreneurial behaviors in... -
Architectures of visibility and invisibility: a reflection on the secret affinities of Johannesburg’s cross-border shopping hub
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Tanya Zack --- School of Architecture and Planning, Thireshen Govender --- Graduate School of Architecture, South AfricaThe inner city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is the site of an intense wholesale and retail trade in fast fashion. Here mostly migrant entrepreneurs supply billions of rand worth of Chinese apparel to local and cross-border shoppers from across sub-Saharan... -
Architecture-by-migrants: the porous infrastructures of Bellville
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Huda Tayob --- The Bartlett School of Architecture, United KingdomThis paper takes as its subject a series of contingent mixed-use urban markets that have been established in Cape Town, South Africa, by migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from various parts of the African continent. It argues that migrant spaces... -
Ethnographic evidence versus theoretical models: reminiscences and reflections on a linear proletarianisation model for Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D. Spiegel --- , South AfricaConceptualising what was seen as the proletarianisation of Southern Africa’s working people was a significant analytical preoccupation of the social sciences in the 1970s. Considering that the region’s political economy was dependent on migrant labour, anthropologists and others sought to...