Examining underexplored aspects of female entrepreneurship in the African context

Abstract

Female entrepreneurship has become a phenomenon of an increasing interest for the last few decades and as such has captured the attention of many scholars, governments, international institutions for development, women’s associations, and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs). For instance, Ojong et al. suggest that 88.4% of papers focusing on female entrepreneurship in the current literature were published between 2007 and 2019 and that 50.3% of them were published in 2015. Also, significant amounts of money have been invested in the promotion and the development of female entrepreneurship in Africa by governments and international development agencies.