Abstract:
The paper focuses on rural entrepreneurship and its implication for the practice of entrepreneurship as anarea
of study and practice in Africa. The paper surveys the entrepreneurship literature using the case study
approach. The authors in their synthesis of the related literature found out that the field of rural
entrepreneurship is an emerging theme in African economic development. In addition, most that exist have
varying themes, focus, epistemological view and different units of analysis. The paper concludes that such
diversity may have contributed to the lack of success in the rural development polices implemented by most
governments in Africa and the inability of most governments to focus and develop rural entrepreneurship.
Thus, it is recommended that researchers should, in the future, identify common themes that will help proffer
solutions for the development of entrepreneurial enterprises in rural Africa
