A West African Entrepreneur's Challenging Path to Financial Freedom
Follow the journey of a Nigerian entrepreneur who builds from nothing to owning multiple businesses and creating financial success.
What can the lived experience of a Nigerian entrepreneur teach us about overcoming challenges and achieving financial freedom?
Author and entrepreneur Ike Onyema Obi recounts his life story from Nigeria to Ghana and beyond, documenting the sacrifices and hard choices that have led him to financial success and a better future for himself, his family, and others.
Along the way, Ike shares how his focus on financial freedom and building wealth has been driven by an avid ability to solve problems and seize opportunities, while balancing risk with consistent strategies for investing in his future. Through anecdotes and recollections, this book highlights the importance of building meaningful relationships and seeking advice to achieve business goals.
A journey from failure, and tough luck, to financial freedom, this entrepreneurial memoir is ideal reading for students of Entrepreneurship, Business Studies, African Studies, Migration, and Sociology, as well as aspiring entrepreneurs.
What can the lived experience of a Nigerian entrepreneur teach us about overcoming challenges and achieving financial freedom?
Author and entrepreneur Ike Onyema Obi recounts his life story from Nigeria to Ghana and beyond, documenting the sacrifices and hard choices that have led him to financial success and a better future for himself, his family, and others.
Along the way, Ike shares how his focus on financial freedom and building wealth has been driven by an avid ability to solve problems and seize opportunities, while balancing risk with consistent strategies for investing in his future. Through anecdotes and recollections, this book highlights the importance of building meaningful relationships and seeking advice to achieve business goals.
A journey from failure, and tough luck, to financial freedom, this entrepreneurial memoir is ideal reading for students of Entrepreneurship, Business Studies, African Studies, Migration, and Sociology, as well as aspiring entrepreneurs.
Contents
Introduction
Learning objectives
Chapter 1 Shaping a new mindset out of poverty
Chapter 2 Finding Mr Smith and the study boys
Chapter 3 Seeing my father’s fortunes and failures
Chapter 4 A journey of optimism into my future
Chapter 5 A million Ghana Cedis means nothing
Chapter 6 Homeless and hungry become my
constant companions
Chapter 7 Choosing a path for my future
Chapter 8 Bleak times and unexpected misfortune
Chapter 9 Winning and losing and learning all the time
Chapter 10 Going offshore and growing rich
Chapter 11 Navigating to new opportunities
Chapter 12 If you want to go far, go together
Chapter 13 Seeds of transformation
Chapter 14 And then Covid came
Glossary
Recommended assignments
References
Index
Ike Onyema Obi is an entrepreneur and multiple business owner
A West African Entrepreneur's Challenging Path to Financial Freedom was nominated for the prestigious BCA African Business Book of the Year.
Nominees: https://bcafrica.org/book-awards
The Business Council for Africa, in collaboration with Brand Communications and African Business magazine, hosts this annual competition dedicated to illuminating the compelling business narratives of Africa.
On Thursday June 13, 2024, we held a seminar in our Topics in Emergent Entrepreneurship series:
The Risks and Rewards of African Entrepreneurship: Overcoming Africa’s Challenging Landscape
This free seminar was a conversation between author Ike Onyema Obi and Drew Harris, Lived Places Publishing Collection Editor. They talked about Ike's experience as a Nigerian entrepreneur, reflecting the challenges many emergent entrepreneurs face. The context of Nigeria posed unique challenges, and Ike recounts taking risks, seizing opportunities, learning persistently, and building his networks to help grow his businesses.
