The Creative Industries and International Business Development in Africa

Nnamdi O. Madichie, Robert Ebo Hinson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2022
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80071-303-1 (ISBN)

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The international business environment has undergone major turbulence in 2020 following the onset of lockdowns, travel restrictions and social distancing all prompted by Covid-19. These restrictions have limited the revenue generation capacity of both countries and businesses – large and small. While the winners have been mostly those sectors with a digital footprint such as streaming services and video-conferencing giants, the creative industries have felt a much harder blow.

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.

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.

Part I. The Landscape of Creative Industries in Africa

Chapter 1. Introduction to the landscape of creative industries in Africa

Chapter 2. Challenges and opportunities of Africa’s creative industries

Part II. Strategies for Developing Africa’s Creative Industries

Chapter 3. The African creative industry in a free trade area

Chapter 4. Re-engaging with Europe and the Commonwealth in a post-Brexit era

Part III. Digitalisation and African Creative industries

Chapter 5. Africa in the age of digitalisation

Chapter 6. The legal landscape and challenge

Part IV. Best Practice Case Studies

Chapter 7. Value co-creation of places and spaces in Africa’s creative hubs

Chapter 8. Country level case studies

Part V. Back to the Future

Chapter 9. The future of Africa’s creative industries

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2022
Verlagsort	Bingley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-80071-303-7 / 1800713037
ISBN-13	978-1-80071-303-1 / 9781800713031
Zustand	Neuware