TY  - BOOK
AU  - Njeri Kinyanjui, Mary
AB  - The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approaches to be identified to integrate them into global urban models and cultures. Using the utu-ubuntu model to understand the activities of traders and artisans in Nairobi’s markets, this book explores how, despite being consistently excluded and disadvantaged, they shape urban spaces in and around the city, and contribute to its development as a whole. With immense resilience, and without discarding their own socio-cultural or economic values, informal traders and artisans have created a territorial complex that can be described as the African metropolis. African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of traders and artisans in Nairobi, as well as their resilience and positive impact on urbanisation. This book makes an important contribution to the discourse on urban economics and planning in African cities.
DO  - 10.5281/zenodo.2628333
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005219
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1099686057
KW  - utu-buntu
KW  - markets
KW  - Africa
KW  - urban planning
KW  - cities
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f8ffb9ee-2ad5-4f3d-8067-8e5b5d944b4b/African_Markets_9781928331780_txt.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24885
PB  - African Minds
PP  - Cape Town
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781928331797; 9781928331803
TI  - African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model : A Perspective on Economic Informality in Nairobi
ER  - 
