Small Scale Ceramic Industry in Oyo State: Challenges and Prospects

Abstract

Small scale, as the appellation suggests is entrepreneurship. It can equally be affiliated with cottage, micro or mini depending on the field of enquiry. In ceramics the latter is popularly referred as small scale or cottage industry; its contribution to the continued rise in man’s living standard is no doubt significant across times and ages. Although, many of the divergent developmental and technological innovations of the practice has been identified; still the challenges and prospects of the industry in Oyo State and Nigeria in extension has not been properly and adequately studied. This however, is as a result of the socio-economic cum political vicissitudes of the Nigerian States which often led to concurrent loss of data. And as such, this study appraises the aforesaid and hopes to bridge the gap in documentation on ceramics cottage in Oyo State and possibly serve as a reconnaissance model for Nigeria and the globe in extension.

Keywords: art entrepreneurship, ceramic, small scale industry, socio-political problem, pottery