Solomon Ben Olonade

Professor Tarun Khanna’s “Billions of Entrepreneurs” is patently ennobling—just as his classes, under which I’ve sat. Here is a phenomenally great, quite insightful and truly instructive book that clinically x-rays the entrepreneurial trajectories and palpable economic advancement of the world's two largest nations. While China adopts a top-down approach driven by "state-led capitalism" and government policies, India on the other hand, favours a bottom-up approach essentially characterised by grassroots entrepreneurship, democratic governance, and vibrant private enterprises. To my mind, this book authoritatively stands both as a firm bundle of pungent reprimands and a beacon of tremendous, audacious hopes to developing countries everywhere, especially to the surpassingly resource-rich but exceedingly impoverished countries of Africa—the Mother Africa, which, with all her enormous natural and human capital, if rightly vectored, should emerge as a global economic superpower within two to four decades.