Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has set an ambitious goal: He wants the country to become one of the world's top 20 economies during the next two decades. In order to hit that target by 2020, Nigeria will need to increasingly globalize education in two key areas: Information and communications technology, and entrepreneurship. In fact, President Obasanjo has mandated that all university students in Nigeria, regardless of their major, will need to study entrepreneurship.
That is one of the factors that brought Peter Bamkole, General Manager, Enterprise Development Services at Lagos Business School, to Wharton. He and a colleague, Olayinka David-West, a lecturer in information systems at Lagos Business School, recently spent time with The Wharton Small Business Development Center exploring how to set up an entrepreneurship program in Nigeria. Bamkole -- who often goes by the more informal "Banky" -- spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about the challenges that entrepreneurs face in his home country.
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