Entrepreneurial Education and Africa’s Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals

Entrepreneurship has the potential to reduce poverty, stimulate economicgrowth and boost innovation, in addition to enhancing social andenvironmental sustainability. In accordance with the human capital theoryand previous empirical studies, it is assumed that entrepreneurship educationand training directly correlate with positive entrepreneurial outcomes andtherefore sustainable development. Although several scholars have attemptedto review and analyse entrepreneurship education and training literature overthe past decade, none of these reviews directly links entrepreneurshipeducation and training with sustainable development or focuses on the roleand status of entrepreneurship education and training (research) in less-stableareas of the world. This article analyses recent literature to identify the extentto which entrepreneurship education and training research addressesSustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The review identifies several gaps inresearch and practice that potentially hinder entrepreneurship education andtraining from adequately advancing sustainable development, including adearth of research on African states and demographic diversity, limitedentrepreneurship education and training access to non-university studentsand a general lack of focus on educational technology, progressive educationapproaches, and innovation in African countries compared to stable ones.The review also identifies challenges pertaining to entrepreneurship educationand training resource constraints in fragile contexts. The article concludes byoffering insights on how educational technology could mitigateentrepreneurship education and training challenges in developing Africaenvironments to ultimately ease some barriers towards SDG advancementand provides recommendations for future research directions.