Transforming the Lives of Poor Rural Women in the Shea Butter Industry through Entrepreneurship: A Case of Sagnarigu Shea butter and Soap Centre

This research paper introduces typologies of entrepreneurs, approaches and conditions to entrepreneurship development among female entrepreneurs. It is argued in this paper that benefits of entrepreneurship among rural entrepreneurs includes income generation, empowerment, improved entrepreneurial skills and gazelle entrepreneurs. It continues to argue that for entrepreneurs to enjoy these, a 4M frame-work has to be adopted. This framework analyses entrepreneurship to include access to market, money, management and an enabling Meso/Meta environ-ment. Main focus of analysis dealt in this paper has been entrepreneurship, pri-vate sector development, income generation and empowerment.