Bright Lights, no City : : an African Adventure on bad Roads With a Brother and a Very Weird Business Plan
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A journalist shares his experiences with his entrepreneur brother in Ghana, West Africa, where they set out with a strange business plan to create a for-profit enterprise to empower Africa's poor as modern consumers.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Hyperion, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 378 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781401324179
1401324177
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Alexander, Max, -- 1957- -- Travel -- Ghana.
Alexander, Whit -- Travel -- Ghana.
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Business enterprises, Foreign -- Ghana.
Storage batteries -- Economic aspects.