Overview

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.

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Author:   Nnamdi O. Madichie (Bloomsbury Institute, UK) ,  Robert Ebo Hinson (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.397kg
ISBN:  

9781800713031

ISBN 10:   1800713037
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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