Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership

"You’ve probably heard the Gospel of Free Market: if a country wants to break the cycle of poverty and achieve economic growth and prosperity, it should deregulate, open up its market, welcome investors, and unleash the power of the private sector. Nationalisation is anathema; protection is heresy; subsidies are so passé. This pervasive neo-liberal orthodoxy is driven with unrelenting vigour by the “unholy trinity” of International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Ha-Joon Chang, the “heretic”, set out to challenge this orthodoxy in Bad Samaritans. The title, of course, is a play on the biblical story of the Good Samaritan – the man who went out of his way to help a man left for dead on the road by armed robbers. Here the parable is flipped: The Bad Samaritans are the rich nations, and they have gone out of their way not only to give, but to force free market orthodoxy down the throat of unsuspecting, and often helpless, poor countries. They use the “unholy Trinity” to great effect in this relentless crusade for free market."

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Beware of the Bad Samaritans! - Premium Times Nigeria Developing countries planning to adopt protectionist strategies could learn a few things in the book from past pitfalls.

Former Governor of Kogi State Nigeria on a a partnership visit to CAEL

The underutilization of agriculture in Nigeria with attendant low yield per hectare is generally attributed to lack of innovation to cope with the challenges of climate change and land degradation. In this study, using information from 326 farmers in Southwest Nigeria, we examined the relative impact of cooperative membership compared with the effects of other socio-economic factors on farmers' adoption of technological innovations. Cooperative membership has a high impact compared to other socioeconomic factors such as land access, gender, and educational status. It is recommended that intervention programs in the agricultural sector should focus more attention on strengthening and expanding farmers' cooperatives for better diffusion and use intensity of innovations and better linking social capital with extension agencies, banks, markets, and agricultural value chains.

Impact of cooperative membership on farmers' uptake of technological innovations in Southwest Nigeria (2014). Impact of cooperative membership on farmers' uptake of technological innovations in Southwest Nigeria. Development Studies Research: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 340-353. doi: 10.1080/21665095.2014.978981

"When capital meets ideas, poverty takes flight."

Seun Kolade, October 2016

Hosting of the delegates by the Wolverhampton City Council

Please have a look. As this clip shows, entrepreneurial skill training can help the most vulnerable people to rebuild their lives.

CAEL Impact Stories (No 2): Entrepreneurship training at the epicentre of Boko Haram insurgency In this video clip, one of CAEL's trainees- now an established trainer her self -tells the story of how she benefited from the entrepreneurship training prov...

The delegation of unit heads and curriculum leaders from Niger State College of Education, here describes how they have benefited from an intensive knowledge transfer workshop they attended at the Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership, University of Wolverhampton.

CAEL Impact Stories COE Niger State Nigeria In this video clip, the delegation from Niger State College of Education, Nigeria, describes their experience in the intensive knowledge transfer workshop on...

Eleven senior executives and curriculum leaders from the College of Education, Minna, Niger State in Nigeria visited the University of Wolverhampton on a week-long training between 22nd and 26th February 2016. The training was organised under the auspices of the Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CAEL).

The dramatic fall in oil prices, and the even more dramatic depreciation of the naira, has left Nigerians scampering for answers and searching for ideas on how to arrest the nation’s slide down the precipice. Governments, especially at the state level, are struggling to pay salaries. The private sector has been hit, with thousands losing their jobs. The good thing now is that there is a renewed sense of urgency about the need to address the long-standing problem of the nation’s heavy dependence on crude oil receipts. [ 902 more words. ]

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Nigeria: beyond protectionism and import substitution By Seun Kolade The dramatic fall in oil prices, and the even more dramatic depreciation of the naira, has left Nigerians scampering for answers and searching for ideas on how to arrest the nation’s slide down the…

The Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CAEL) aims to build knowledge and capacity in Africa as well as provide research and policy development.

CAEL provides short courses and executive and doctoral training in the UK and Africa and also develops academic partnerships with African universities – these include the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, the University of Maiduguri, College of Education Minna and Bayero University Kano in Nigeria - and it focuses on developing sustainable schemes to support SMEs, graduate and youth employment.

The centre will be formally launched during a celebration event next week at the University.


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Featured news - African entrepreneurship centre to be celebrated - University of Wolverhampton A University of Wolverhampton centre which supports entrepreneurship and democratic governance in Africa is to be formally launched next week.

Formal launch of the Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership, University of Wolverhampton