Public and Nonprofit PNP

Africa's public and nonprofit sectors are among the most institutionally diverse and socially consequential in the world. From government agencies and public service reforms to NGOs, community organizations, advocacy networks, and hybrid public–private partnerships, the continent offers a rich and complex environment for scholars committed to understanding how organizations create public value.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together researchers, practitioners, and students dedicated to advancing rigorous, context‑grounded, and impactful management scholarship. Our mission aligns directly with PNP's commitment to studying public, quasi‑public, and nonprofit organizations, their relationships with private actors, and the social and ethical dimensions of their work.

Why PNP scholars will find African contexts - and AFAM's community - uniquely valuable

• A vast array of public and nonprofit organizations, including government ministries, social service agencies, cultural institutions, community associations, faith‑based organizations, and international NGOs.
• Opportunities to study cross‑sector collaboration, where public, nonprofit, and private actors jointly address societal challenges such as health, education, governance, and sustainability.
• Rich institutional variation that illuminates how political, cultural, technological, and environmental factors shape organizational behavior and public policy.
• Empirical settings for research on decision‑making, strategy, HRM, networks, and public service performance, fully aligned with PNP's domain.
• Comparative research potential, examining similarities and differences between public and private sector management across diverse African contexts.
• A community committed to improving practice, echoing PNP's mission to disseminate research that informs public administrators, nonprofit leaders, consultants, and educators.
• A platform for societal impact, where management scholarship directly contributes to strengthening institutions and improving public wellbeing.

AFAM complements PNP's mission by offering a space where scholars can explore how public and nonprofit organizations operate in environments marked by institutional complexity, resource constraints, innovation, and deep community engagement.

If your work seeks to understand or improve public and nonprofit management, AFAM offers a powerful platform for collaboration, comparative research, and meaningful societal contribution.

👉 Discover more and start engaging with us:
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
https://africaacademyofmanagement.org
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📌AJOM Call for Papers: Pen the future of African modernities - meet the editors, see the clues. #PYKPOC opens in 24h⏳

✒️ Something is being rewritten at the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) - official journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). 📅In less than 24h, AJOM will open a Call for Papers (CfP) that invites you to write from a place rarely given room on the page.

#PYKPOC - Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation.

🎙️ The Guest Editors: A pluriversal circle. Six minds. Three continents, one continent at heart. One conversation.

• Natasha Winkler-Titus (PhD) - Stellenbosch Business School 🇿🇦 · Deputy Programme Chair, AFAM • Dr Emamdeen Fohim - University of Bern 🇨🇭 · co-founder, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP) • Prof. Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa - Copenhagen Business School 🇩🇰  • Prof. Thomas Anning-Dorson, PhD - Wits Business School 🇿🇦 • Prof. Renate E. Meyer - WU Vienna 🇦🇹 · Copenhagen Business School · Saïd Business School, Oxford • Prof. Joel Gehman - The George Washington University 🇺🇸

🤔 What could they be plotting together? A few clues to spark your imagination 👇

🔹 Which modernities - quietly born? [OMT, CMS, MH, MSR] 🔹 Which technologies - free or chain? [CTO, TIM, CMS, SIM] 🔹 Which cases - already alive? [ENT, ODC, BPS, PNP] 🔹 Which infrastructures - still owed? [TIM, OSCM, HCM, PNP] 🔹 Whose rules, minerals, code? [IM, BPS, ONE, SIM] 🔹 Whose time, whose tomorrow? [OMT, MOC, MSR, RM] 🔹 What is Gen Z already writing? [ENT, DEI, CAR, MED]

✒️ Many things will be questioned. And solutions will need your pen. Make your guesses. Tag a colleague who should be at this table.

🪶In the meantime, Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation - #PYKPOC. Bring what only you can write. Together, we will hold the conversation.

#CfP #PYKPOC #AJOM #AFAM #CallForPapers #AfricanScholarship #AfricaJournalOfManagement #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality #AOM #IFSAM #RME #BAM #SpecialIssue

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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🌍 What might Afrotopia look like in times of technological transformation?

This is the central question explored in an upcoming Special Issue of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM), the official journal of the Africa Academy of Management:

Finding Afrotopia in Times of Technological Transformation –

Toward Pluriversal African Future-Making

Inspired by Felwine Sarr's vision of Afrotopia, the Special Issue invites scholars to explore how organizations, governments, entrepreneurs, communities, and citizens across Africa are shaping futures amid rapid technological change:

o   How can technological transformation support alternative African modernities that genuinely serve the continent's people?

o   How might African philosophies, traditions, and organizing practices inspire pluriversal approaches to future-making?

o   What opportunities and risks do AI, platform economies, digital ecosystems, and geopolitical transformations create for African futures?

We welcome conceptual and empirical contributions addressing these and related questions, as outlined in the attached call.µ

📅 Curious to learn more about this Special Issue?

👉 Join our online information session - 🗓️ 10 September 2026 | 🕑 2:00 PM Central Africa Time: Register here: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/meeting/register/MJ4k85u8SQ-s_mbLzjY2oA

📄 Check the attached full detail CfP.

Guest Editors

o   Natasha Winkler-Titus (Stellenbosch University)

o   Emamdeen Fohim (University of Bern)

o   Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa (Copenhagen Business School)

o   Thomas Anning-Dorson (University of the Witwatersrand)

o   Renate E. Meyer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

o   Joel Gehman (George Washington University)

📄 Submission deadline: 1 November 2027

We warmly invite scholars from Africa and beyond to join this conversation on technological transformation, future-making, and the pursuit of African futures that are imagined, shaped, and defined on their own terms.

#AFAM #AfricaJournalOfManagement #Afrotopia #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-21-2026 15:52
From: Guy NJAMBONG
Subject: 🌍 Advancing Public & Nonprofit Management Through African Perspectives

📌AJOM Call for Papers: Pen the future of African modernities - meet the editors, see the clues. #PYKPOC opens in 24h⏳

✒️ Something is being rewritten at the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) - official journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). 📅In less than 24h, AJOM will open a Call for Papers (CfP) that invites you to write from a place rarely given room on the page.

#PYKPOC - Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation.

🎙️ The Guest Editors: A pluriversal circle. Six minds. Three continents, one continent at heart. One conversation.

• Natasha Winkler-Titus (PhD) - Stellenbosch Business School 🇿🇦 · Deputy Programme Chair, AFAM • Dr Emamdeen Fohim - University of Bern 🇨🇭 · co-founder, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP) • Prof. Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa - Copenhagen Business School 🇩🇰  • Prof. Thomas Anning-Dorson, PhD - Wits Business School 🇿🇦 • Prof. Renate E. Meyer - WU Vienna 🇦🇹 · Copenhagen Business School · Saïd Business School, Oxford • Prof. Joel Gehman - The George Washington University 🇺🇸

🤔 What could they be plotting together? A few clues to spark your imagination 👇

🔹 Which modernities - quietly born? [OMT, CMS, MH, MSR] 🔹 Which technologies - free or chain? [CTO, TIM, CMS, SIM] 🔹 Which cases - already alive? [ENT, ODC, BPS, PNP] 🔹 Which infrastructures - still owed? [TIM, OSCM, HCM, PNP] 🔹 Whose rules, minerals, code? [IM, BPS, ONE, SIM] 🔹 Whose time, whose tomorrow? [OMT, MOC, MSR, RM] 🔹 What is Gen Z already writing? [ENT, DEI, CAR, MED]

✒️ Many things will be questioned. And solutions will need your pen. Make your guesses. Tag a colleague who should be at this table.

🪶In the meantime, Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation - #PYKPOC. Bring what only you can write. Together, we will hold the conversation.

#CfP #PYKPOC #AJOM #AFAM #CallForPapers #AfricanScholarship #AfricaJournalOfManagement #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality #AOM #IFSAM #RME #BAM #SpecialIssue

------------------------------
Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
------------------------------

🌍 What might Afrotopia look like in times of technological transformation?

This is the central question explored in an upcoming Special Issue of the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM), the official journal of the Africa Academy of Management:

Finding Afrotopia in Times of Technological Transformation –

Toward Pluriversal African Future-Making

Inspired by Felwine Sarr's vision of Afrotopia, the Special Issue invites scholars to explore how organizations, governments, entrepreneurs, communities, and citizens across Africa are shaping futures amid rapid technological change:

o   How can technological transformation support alternative African modernities that genuinely serve the continent's people?

o   How might African philosophies, traditions, and organizing practices inspire pluriversal approaches to future-making?

o   What opportunities and risks do AI, platform economies, digital ecosystems, and geopolitical transformations create for African futures?

We welcome conceptual and empirical contributions addressing these and related questions, as outlined in the attached call.µ

📅 Curious to learn more about this Special Issue?

👉 Join our online information session - 🗓️ 10 September 2026 | 🕑 2:00 PM Central Africa Time: Register here: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/meeting/register/MJ4k85u8SQ-s_mbLzjY2oA

📄 Check the attached full detail CfP.

Guest Editors

o   Natasha Winkler-Titus (Stellenbosch University)

o   Emamdeen Fohim (University of Bern)

o   Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa (Copenhagen Business School)

o   Thomas Anning-Dorson (University of the Witwatersrand)

o   Renate E. Meyer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

o   Joel Gehman (George Washington University)

📄 Submission deadline: 1 November 2027

We warmly invite scholars from Africa and beyond to join this conversation on technological transformation, future-making, and the pursuit of African futures that are imagined, shaped, and defined on their own terms.

#AFAM #AfricaJournalOfManagement #Afrotopia #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality

------------------------------
Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 06-21-2026 15:52
From: Guy NJAMBONG
Subject: 🌍 Advancing Public & Nonprofit Management Through African Perspectives

📌AJOM Call for Papers: Pen the future of African modernities - meet the editors, see the clues. #PYKPOC opens in 24h⏳

✒️ Something is being rewritten at the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) - official journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). 📅In less than 24h, AJOM will open a Call for Papers (CfP) that invites you to write from a place rarely given room on the page.

#PYKPOC - Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation.

🎙️ The Guest Editors: A pluriversal circle. Six minds. Three continents, one continent at heart. One conversation.

• Natasha Winkler-Titus (PhD) - Stellenbosch Business School 🇿🇦 · Deputy Programme Chair, AFAM • Dr Emamdeen Fohim - University of Bern 🇨🇭 · co-founder, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP) • Prof. Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa - Copenhagen Business School 🇩🇰  • Prof. Thomas Anning-Dorson, PhD - Wits Business School 🇿🇦 • Prof. Renate E. Meyer - WU Vienna 🇦🇹 · Copenhagen Business School · Saïd Business School, Oxford • Prof. Joel Gehman - The George Washington University 🇺🇸

🤔 What could they be plotting together? A few clues to spark your imagination 👇

🔹 Which modernities - quietly born? [OMT, CMS, MH, MSR] 🔹 Which technologies - free or chain? [CTO, TIM, CMS, SIM] 🔹 Which cases - already alive? [ENT, ODC, BPS, PNP] 🔹 Which infrastructures - still owed? [TIM, OSCM, HCM, PNP] 🔹 Whose rules, minerals, code? [IM, BPS, ONE, SIM] 🔹 Whose time, whose tomorrow? [OMT, MOC, MSR, RM] 🔹 What is Gen Z already writing? [ENT, DEI, CAR, MED]

✒️ Many things will be questioned. And solutions will need your pen. Make your guesses. Tag a colleague who should be at this table.

🪶In the meantime, Pen Your Knowledge: Pen Our Conversation - #PYKPOC. Bring what only you can write. Together, we will hold the conversation.

#CfP #PYKPOC #AJOM #AFAM #CallForPapers #AfricanScholarship #AfricaJournalOfManagement #FutureMaking #DigitalTransformation #Africa #ManagementResearch #OrganizationStudies #Innovation #Pluriversality #AOM #IFSAM #RME #BAM #SpecialIssue

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Guy NJAMBONG
Communications Director
Africa Academy of Management | AFAM
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