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Africa is home to some of the most vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems in the world - from high‑growth ventures and digital startups to social enterprises, family firms, and community‑driven innovation. For scholars committed to understanding how individuals and groups create new economic and social value, Africa offers an unparalleled environment for research, teaching, and professional growth.

The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together a global community of researchers dedicated to rigorous, context‑grounded, and impactful management scholarship. Our mission aligns directly with ENT's purpose: to grow entrepreneurship scholars who create and disseminate knowledge.

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

• A rich landscape of entrepreneurial activity, from micro‑ventures to high‑growth startups, spanning formal and informal economies.
• Opportunities to study opportunity recognition, creativity, and judgment under uncertainty, shaped by diverse institutional and cultural environments.
• Empirical settings for research on venture creation, business model innovation, resource mobilization, and entrepreneurial strategy.
• A natural laboratory for studying social, sustainable, and community‑based entrepreneurship, central to Africa's development trajectory.
• Deep insights into owner‑managers, family firms, and SMEs, which dominate many African economies and offer fertile ground for ENT theory building.
• Innovation under constraints, including frugal innovation, digital leapfrogging, and grassroots problem‑solving.
• A strong fit for interdisciplinary research, drawing from economics, sociology, psychology, history, and beyond - fully aligned with ENT's scholarly tradition.
• A global, collegial community that supports doctoral students, early‑career researchers, and established scholars through mentorship, conferences, and collaborative opportunities.

AFAM complements ENT's mission by offering a platform where scholars can explore how entrepreneurship emerges, evolves, and creates value across diverse African contexts - generating insights that enrich global entrepreneurship theory and practice.

If your work seeks to understand how entrepreneurs identify opportunities, mobilize resources, innovate, and build ventures, AFAM offers a powerful space for collaboration, comparative research, and scholarly growth.

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

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Guy NJAMBONG, PharmD, MBA, MSc
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 16:00
From: Guy NJAMBONG
Subject: 🌍 Advancing Entrepreneurship Scholarship 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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