Rethinking Business and Society in Africa through Africapitalism: Critical and Comparative Perspectives
Journal: African Journal of Management
Submission deadline: 30 October 2025
The special issue aims to advance the debate on business and society in Africa through a special focus on Africapitalism. In the last two decades, Africapitalism has gained traction as a key framing of the desire for a new, viable, and decolonised form of management and economic philosophy. Although Africapitalism is conceptualised as a philosophy of the future, informed by a fusion of indigenous African values and possibilities embedded in post-colonial practices of private ownership, its conceptual provenance and translation into practice remain contested. Stimulated by systematic research in the last decade, scholars and practitioners have leveraged this concept to promote new ways of aligning business rationale and economic systems to societal aspirations. This special issue provides an opportunity to 1) track disparate attempts to translate Africapitalism into practice and 2) attain clarity about the state of research on the promises and contestations of this concept.
Special Issue Editors:
Kenneth Amaeshi
European University Institute, Italy, and University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Uwafiokun Idemudia
University of Guelph, and York University, Canada
Judy Muthuri
Mona Business School, University of West Indies, Jamaica
Uchenna Okeja
Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and Yale University, USA
AJoM Associate Editor:
Lilac Nachum
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Lilac Nachum
Professor
Baruch College of the City University of New York
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