The Creative Industries and International Business Development in Africa
About this ebook
Against this backdrop, The Creative Industries and International Business Development in Africa takes an unorthodox approach to showcasing the trends and challenges of the contemporary creative economy with a view to positioning the sector for a global audience.
Drawing upon the categorisations of the Creative Industries Federation, the book interrogates, and highlights, the challenges, and opportunities of the creative industries in Africa. This is with a view to aggregating how the sector has coped with a myriad of challenges even before the pandemic. Discussions across the chapters document the changing landscape of the sector, capturing insights from the global value chain to everything digital – from arts to publishing, fashion, film and music production and distribution. Further insights are discussed around recent events such as the take-off of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the exit of Britain from the EU – with the latter event reinvigorating the Commonwealth Agenda and renewed interest in Africa’s creative industries.
About the author
Nnamdi O. Madichie is Research Fellow at the Bloomsbury Institute in London. He is also Professor of Marketing at the Unizik Business School, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka Nigeria, as well as Visiting Professor at the Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria.
Robert Ebo Hinson is a Professor at the University of Ghana and Visiting Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing and Tourism at the Lincoln International Business School, UK.
