The African Context of Business and Society

The African Context of Business and Society is an intellectually stimulating volume with interventions that intersect macro and micro economic contexts of doing business in Africa. It captures accentuations of gender dynamics, cultural, religion, leadership and management, service delivery, power, information management and ethics of trust as relevant to Africa. The book advances attempts at decolonising the content of teaching about Africa, with indigenised contributions that not only redefine individual and institutional logics of business transactions as underpinned by sociality, but also provides key stakeholders including potential investors, policy makers, financial institutions as well as SMEs with cues to building legitimacy for sustainable business ventures in Africa’.

-- Dr Philip A Oláyọkù, APD Chair of West African Transitional Justice Centre Director, Centre for Research on African Digital Policy and Innovations (CRADPI), Contract Nigeria

Whether it is to understand the role of trust, the components of authentic leadership, or examine evidence of service productivity of employees such as bank workers, scholars and practitioners increasingly need to understand novel contemporary discourse through an Africanist lens. In this exciting book, many questions around African business and society have received implicit answers and are explained in practical language. The coverage of the nature of findings and accessible style of writing will make this book popular to practitioners and friends of African Studies.

-- Olatunde Akande CBCA, Director, Credit Access Wealth, West Africa

There is a paucity of research which analyses African business within the context of African society. This edited volume has an impressive range of topics designed to fill this vacuum including: the role of trust; authentic leadership; religion; organisational resilience; and the pivotal contribution that women entrepreneurs make to African business and society. The volume is likely to become a key reference work in this important area of research and scholarship.

-- Professor John Struthers, Director: Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development, University of the West of Scot