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  • 1.  ๐ŸŒ Rethinking Communication, Technology, and Organizations Through African Perspectives

    Posted 05-10-2026 10:29

    As digital technologies reshape communication, collaboration, and organizational life across the world, Africa stands out as one of the most dynamic and innovative management laboratories of our time. The Africa Academy of Management (AFAM) brings together scholars who believe that Africa is not only a context of study - it is a source of new theory, digital innovation, and organizational insight.

    For CTO scholars, Africa offers:

    • Rich empirical settings for studying digital adoption, communication networks, and socioโ€‘technical change.
    • Novel organizational forms emerging from mobile-first economies, platform ecosystems, and digitally enabled public services.
    • Opportunities for comparative, crossโ€‘cultural, and practiceโ€‘oriented research on communication, information systems, and organizational transformation.
    • A vibrant scholarly community connecting Africa-based researchers with global colleagues working on technology, communication, and organizational design.

    AFAM's mission is to advance rigorous and relevant management scholarship rooted in African realities while building global connections and empowering the next generation of researchers.

    If you are passionate about understanding how communication and technology shape organizations - and how organizations shape society - AFAM is a natural intellectual home.

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ 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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  • 2.  RE: ๐ŸŒ Rethinking Communication, Technology, and Organizations Through African Perspectives

    Posted 06-21-2026 16:08

    ๐Ÿ“ŒAJOM Call for Papers: Pen the future of African modernities - meet the editors, see the clues. #PYKPOC opens in 24hโณ

    โœ’๏ธ Something is being rewritten at the Africa Journal of Management (AJOM) - official journal of the Africa Academy of Management (AFAM). ๐Ÿ“…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.

    ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ The Guest Editors: A pluriversal circle. Six minds. Three continents, one continent at heart. One conversation.

    โ€ข Natasha Winkler-Titus (PhD) - Stellenbosch Business School ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ยท Deputy Programme Chair, AFAM โ€ข Dr Emamdeen Fohim - University of Bern ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ ยท co-founder, Centre for African Smart Public Value Governance (C4SP) โ€ข Prof. Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa - Copenhagen Business School ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ  โ€ข Prof. Thomas Anning-Dorson, PhD - Wits Business School ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ โ€ข Prof. Renate E. Meyer - WU Vienna ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น ยท Copenhagen Business School ยท Saรฏd Business School, Oxford โ€ข Prof. Joel Gehman - The George Washington University ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

    ๐Ÿค” What could they be plotting together? A few clues to spark your imagination ๐Ÿ‘‡

    ๐Ÿ”น Which modernities - quietly born? [OMT, CMS, MH, MSR] ๐Ÿ”น Which technologies - free or chain? [CTO, TIM, CMS, SIM] ๐Ÿ”น Which cases - already alive? [ENT, ODC, BPS, PNP] ๐Ÿ”น Which infrastructures - still owed? [TIM, OSCM, HCM, PNP] ๐Ÿ”น Whose rules, minerals, code? [IM, BPS, ONE, SIM] ๐Ÿ”น Whose time, whose tomorrow? [OMT, MOC, MSR, RM] ๐Ÿ”น What is Gen Z already writing? [ENT, DEI, CAR, MED]

    โœ’๏ธ Many things will be questioned. And solutions will need your pen. Make your guesses. Tag a colleague who should be at this table.

    ๐ŸชถIn 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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  • 3.  RE: ๐ŸŒ Rethinking Communication, Technology, and Organizations Through African Perspectives

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    ๐ŸŒ 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 โ€“

    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.ยต

    ๐Ÿ“… Curious to learn more about this Special Issue?

    ๐Ÿ‘‰ Join our online information session - ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 10 September 2026 | ๐Ÿ•‘ 2:00 PM Central Africa Time: Register here: https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/meeting/register/MJ4k85u8SQ-s_mbLzjY2oA

    ๐Ÿ“„ 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)


    ๐Ÿ“„ 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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