This was a 7-month qualitative study conducted from January to July 2015 on Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs in Ghana. The key viewpoint for this paper is that transnational immigrant entrepreneurship is not specific only to North American and European contexts or even Southern Africa. By studying Nigerian immigrants in Ghana and their transnational entrepreneurial activities and embeddedness. The author offers a West African case of transnational immigrant entrepreneurship to help support his claim of Africa’s emerging position in immigrant entrepreneurship. The author argues in this paper that “understanding transnational embeddedness of Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurship in Ghana contributes to altering the dominant south-north view in migration studies in Africa.” He does so by exploring the transnational and entrepreneurial practices of Nigerian immigrants in Ghana. A total of 41 Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurs were interviewed across the three study sites, most of whom at the business premises of the entrepreneurs. The investigation into transnationalism in Nigerian immigrant entrepreneurship in Ghana, reveals how some immigrant entrepreneurial activities respond to the emerging economic opportunity structure that is conditioned by developments occurring internationally.

Nigerian & Transnationalism