Abstract
African urban mobility systems are confronting swift transformation, driven by the collective influences of digital disruption and sustainable innovation. These movements offer notable opportunities for entrepreneurship, particularly for small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) pursuing to innovate inclusive and sustainable mobility solutions. This study dispenses a systematic literature review of 68 peer-reviewed articles, complimented by a bibliometric co-occurrence network analysis, to synthesize prevailing research themes, conceptual conflicts, and emerging opportunities influencing sustainable urban mobility entrepreneurship in African cities. The review depicts three interrelated thematic clusters: digital disruption, innovations in green mobility, within urban mobility, and the overall influence of entrepreneurial ecosystems towards the stimulation or obstruction of innovation adoption. The findings amplify the current understanding by combining entrepreneurship and innovation outlooks, opposing the predominant metropolitan emphasis by underlining the undiscovered capacity of secondary cities, and providing novel theoretical insights into how resource-limited ecosystems can propel context-specific and scalable urban mobility solutions. The report highlights the prerequisite of strengthening collaborative-stakeholder engagement, promoting financial accessibility and digital infrastructure, and formulation of legal frameworks that address local entrepreneurial requirements. The paper concludes by delineating a focused research agenda that handles inadequacy in the comprehension of ecosystem dynamics, governance legal frameworks, and methodological plan of actions, furnishing actionable insights for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to enhance inclusive and sustainable mobility outcomes within African contexts.