Colonial Ideologies and the Emergence of Two Spaces: The Nigerian Experience

This chapter examines the politico-historical emergence of two spaces in colonial Nigeria and how this historical configuration affected colonial and postcolonial Nigerian politics. It contends that the emergence and characteristics of the two spaces owe their origins to two bourgeois groups, namely the British colonial administrators on ground and the select few indigenous elite borne out of the colonial experience. Ideologies were formulated around these two groups and used to legitimate British rule as the ordinary man became the target of the intellectual workmanship of the two groups. The chapter concludes that the postcolonial challenges of Nigeria are due to the dialectical relationship between the two spaces which emerged out of the need to execute the imperial ideologies of Britain in colonial Nigeria

Strengthening resilience in response to COVID-19: A call to integrate social reproduction in sustainable food systems

COVID-19 has revealed new tensions and exacerbated old fragilities in global food systems, characterised by the systemic socio-economic reliance on invisible, unpaid and devalued work. We argue that, in the same way environmental concerns have become integral to the Sustainable Food Systems agenda, a social reproduction approach, informed by geographies of care, are essential for a critical analysis and the search for alternatives. By linking analytical concepts to examples from social movements, the commentary calls for a paradigm shift and a new research agenda involving these critical perspectives on resilient and sustainable food systems

How Entrepreneurship Ecosystem influences the development of frugal innovation and informal entrepreneurship?

This article critically analyses how the entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) and institutional environment influences the development of frugal innovation and informal entrepreneurship. There is a dearth of empirical research on African entrepreneurship ecosystems and complementors that produce innovations in the informal sector. We address this gap, by examining why and how informal businesses operate and evolve. Based on a qualitative approach, interviewing 20 business owners in Nigeria, two focus groups meeting with 5 and 7 business associations leaders respectively, we examine the role of institutional environments, how entrepreneurs operate and overcome the barriers to entrepreneurship. The results reveal a model of determinants of frugal innovation and informal entrepreneurship ecosystem comprising of formal/informal rules, access to market and family as important elements that act as a means to effective knowledge flows, networking, capital and resources sharing