Everyday Entrepreneurs: Documenting African Entrepreneurial Journeys

In recent years, stories of African entrepreneurship have become popular online, highlighting the journeys, success and challenges that emerging entrepreneurs experience. However, many of these stories and platforms focus mainly on opportunity entrepreneurs and exclude necessity entrepreneurs who operate medium to small businesses, despite the fact that these entrepreneurs overwhelmingly outnumber their more affluent counterparts. Everyday Entrepreneurs is Media Creative Production undertaken with the aim of beginning to fill this gap by highlighting the narratives of some of the entrepreneurs that we encounter daily. The researcher created a web-based platform to showcase various entrepreneurial journeys. This was done by conducting qualitative interviews with seven small-to-medium business owners operating in Cape Town, South Africa, selected through a purposive sampling process. These interviews informed a series of profiles detailing the experiences of these entrepreneurs. The supporting research, as well as the motivations and experiences of the research are documented in the accompanying reflective essay.

Grantor

Centre for Film and Media Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Mukuka, Chisanga

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Evans, Martha

• Media Studies

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30927

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/30927