摘要：Africa’s population is growing rapidly and African youth currently has limited income opportunities other than selfemployment.Globally there are more than 1 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 defined as youth by the United Nations.According to the International Labour Organization,an estimation of 85% of young people live in developing economies such as African economy,and anticipate that for the next 10 years close to 100 million young people will enter the global workforce every year.The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors driving youth entrepreneurship as well as challenges limiting urban youth entrepreneurs’ ability to contribute meaningfully to economic growth and reducing unemployment across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using a quantitative research approach.533 questionnaires were purposive administered and 431 were completed,a response rate of 82.6% was achieved.Mozambique and Namibia were excluded due to language proficiency.Swaziland response rate was very poor and thus was discarded and regarded as spoilt questionnaires.The findings indicate that youth do not start business out of necessity and that role models play a major role in influencing youth to start business in sub-Saharan region.
关键词：Africa’s population is growing rapidly and African youth currently has limited income opportunities other than selfemployment.Globally there are more than 1 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 defined as youth by the United Nations.According to the International Labour Organization,an estimation of 85% of young people live in developing economies such as African economy,and anticipate that for the next 10 years close to 100 million young people will enter the global workforce every year.The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors driving youth entrepreneurship as well as challenges limiting urban youth entrepreneurs’ ability to contribute meaningfully to economic growth and reducing unemployment across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using a quantitative research approach.533 questionnaires were purposive administered and 431 were completed,a response rate of 82.6% was achieved.Mozambique and Namibia were excluded due to language proficiency.Swaziland response rate was very poor and thus was discarded and regarded as spoilt questionnaires.The findings indicate that youth do not start business out of necessity and that role models play a major role in influencing youth to start business in sub-Saharan region.
