🌍 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:
- How can technological transformation support alternative African modernities that genuinely serve the continent's people?
- How might African philosophies, traditions, and organizing practices inspire pluriversal approaches to future-making?
- 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 call (https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.23803.27687).
Interested in learning more?
Join our online information session:
🗓️ 10 September 2026
🕑 2:00 PM Central Africa Time (2 PM CEST; 8 AM EST; 10 PM AEST)
👉 Register here:
https://unibe-ch.zoom.us/meeting/register/MJ4k85u8SQ-s_mbLzjY2oA
Guest Editors
Natasha Winkler-Titus (Stellenbosch University)
Emamdeen Fohim (University of Bern)
Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa (Copenhagen Business School)
Thomas Anning-Dorson (University of the Witwatersrand)
Renate E. Meyer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
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.
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Emamdeen Fohim
Post Doctorate Fellow
University of Bern
Bern
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