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AFRICAPITALISM: AN EXPOSITION ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP (3) © 2018                  CHIBU NDUBUISI                       27/10/2018 WEEK 43 Peace be upon you. As the 2018 TEF forum ends, this piece is the concluding part in three series exposition on Africapitalism, Entrepreneurship & Peace Building.   WHO IS AN ENTREPRENEUR?   The word entrepreneurship is derived from the French word “entreprende” meaning to undertake. Whoever is involved in the process of entrepreneurship is an entrepreneur. In the words of Schumpeter (1934) “ An entrepreneur is someone who undertakes the responsibility of making innovation in the economy , that is, either introducing new goods, new methods of production or a distribution, opening and developing new markets, developing a new source of supply of raw materials, carries out a new organization or enterprises of an industry . HOW ENTREPRENEURS ARE MADE: NURTURE OR NATURE: Ernst and young world entrepreneur of the year pro

AFRICAPITALISM: AN ENABLING FORCE FOR PEACE BUILDING IN AFRICA (2) © 2018            CHIBU NDUBUISI       20/10/2018      WEEK 42   “ Peace is like oxygen, when you don’t have it, it is all you can think about but when you do, you don’t appreciate your good fortune” Joseph Nye  Peace be upon you .     Africapitalism as an idea is hinged on four core values of sense of progress and prosperity, sense of parity and inclusion, sense of peace and harmony, sense of place and belonging. Amaeshi. k (2013). The value of peace and harmony will be our focal point for this discourse. The idea of Africapitalism is about how Africans can invest in instruments of productivity and healing rather than destruction. When Africans are empowered, Peace and harmony flows. Ibeanu (2004), further opines, that peace, as a process involving activities is directly and indirectly linked to increasing development and reducing conflict in all spheres. To understand Africapitalism,

AFRICAPITALISM: ENABLING THE AFRICAN VALUES OF KWANZA & UBUNTU PHILOSOPHY. © 2018                      CHIBU NDUBUISI             13/10/2018     WEEK 41 “ what rescues a nation is not weapons but ideas” . Jonathan Sacks Peace be upon you. As entrepreneurs converge to celebrate and network, I would like to make this ample contribution to the discourse of entrepreneurship. Africapitalism seeks to ask critical questions like, what do I need from Africa? And what does Africa needs from me? It is an idea of Africa's cohesion and consolidation devoid of needless fragmentation, polarization and alienation.   In a Personal Introduction by Tony Elumelu” he posited that: “ Africa is capitalism’s final frontier, and as such it offers boundless economic opportunity — not just for investors and entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, but also for economic growth to solve many of the continent’s most pressing social challenges. That is the heart of Afric