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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(4):602-613; doi:10.1093/es/khn085
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Building Up Goodwill: British Business, Development and Economic Nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945–1977

Stephanie Decker

STEPHANIE DECKER has completed her history dissertation in 2006 at the University of Liverpool, U.K. She is a Lecturer in International Business at the University of Liverpool Management School

Contact information: Chatham Street, Liverpool L69 7ZH, U.K. E-mail: sdecker@liv.ac.uk.

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Contemporary sub-Saharan Africa presents a puzzle to many observers, and has generally been perceived as a hostile environment to modern business. It is indeed difficult to make sense of politics and business on the continent without understanding how African colonies turned into independent countries since the late 1950s, and how they evolved into postcolonial states from the 1970s onwards. Imperial business was witness to these fundamental changes in African societies and deeply affected by it. Although some economic indicators in the 1970s were relatively favorable (many commodity prices were high), this was the decade when the severe decline of Africa, both in relative and absolute terms, began. While the colonial powers had left, imperial business stayed behind and forged close links to African political elites in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s, they were challenged, both in Africa and internationally, as being part of a new form of colonialism. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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