Giving to Help, Helping to Give

The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

Tade Akin Aina, Bhekinkosi Moyo, Tade Akin Aina, Bhekinkosi Moyo, Tade Akin Aina

• Publisher: Amalion
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9782359260205
• eBook ISBN:
  9782359260212
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
• Index: Business

The past decade has seen a flowering of philanthropic activities across many parts of Africa. Unlike before, this flowering has the distinct character of African agency, energy and engagement. Philanthropy is no longer about narratives of passive, poor and miserable Africans receiving help from rich, fortunate and often Western outsiders. The emerging narratives about philanthropy in Africa are about an increasingly confident and knowledgeable assertion of African capacities to give not only to help but also to transform and seek to address the root causes of injustice, want, ignorance and disease. The narratives are also about the increasing questioning of the role and place of Africans in the world's philanthropic traditions and what constitutes African specificities but also African differences and varieties.
This book is about African philanthropic experiences, their varieties, challenges and opportunities. It is about documenting, investigating, describing, questioning and reflecting on philanthropy in Africa. Because Africa is not a monolithic entity with one single history, cultural, political and economic experience, this ground-breaking book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles and means in which the philanthropic experiences are expressed in Africa. It is a pioneering and ambitious effort in a field and community of practice that is new both in terms of scholarship and in professional practice. Many of the chapters boldly engage the burden of reflections, questions, ambivalences and ambiguities that one often finds in an emerging field, innovatively positing the outlines, concepts, frameworks and theories of scholarship and practice for a field critical to development on the continent.

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Table of contents

• Tables
• Figures
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1
• The State, Politics and Philanthropy in Africa: Framing the Context
• Tade Akin Aina
• CHAPTER 2
• Trends, Innovations and Partnerships for Development in African Philanthropy
• Bhekinkosi Moyo
• CHAPTER 3
• “I Am Well If You Are Well”: Nervous Conditions of Philanthropy in African Culture
• Robert Muponde
• CHAPTER 4
• Traditional Philanthropy in Pre-Colonial Asante
• Kwaku Asante-Darko
• CHAPTER 5
• Horizontal Philanthropy Among the Poor in Southern Africa: Grounded Perspectives on Social Capital and Civic Association
• Alan Fowler & Susan Wilkinson-Maposa
• CHAPTER 6
• The Challenge of Philanthropy in East Africa
• Connie Ngondi-Houghton & Andrew Kingman
• CHAPTER 7
• Philanthropy and Equity: The Case of South Africa
• Christa L. Kuljian
• CHAPTER 8
• Conceptual Frameworks Influencing Social Justice Philanthropy: A Study of Independent Funders in South Africa
• Halima Mahomed
• CHAPTER 9
• Philanthropy in Egypt
• Marwa El Daly
• CHAPTER 10
• Philanthropy in Nigeria: State of the Practice and New Frontiers
• Kayode Samuel
• CHAPTER 11
• Institutional Forms of Philanthropy in Francophone West Africa
• Mohamadou Sy & Ibrahima Hathie
• CHAPTER 12
• Diaspora Philanthropy and Development: Zimbabweans in South Africa
• James Muzondidya & Bertha Chiroro
• CHAPTER 13
• Diaspora Remittances: Motivations, Organization and Contribution to Social Welfare in Central Africa
• Gérard Tchouassi & Fondo Sikod
• CHAPTER 14
• Fish or Fishing Lines? Muslim Women and Philanthropy in Tanzania
• Saïda Yahya-Othman
• CHAPTER 15
• Islamic Philanthropy in Tanzania:Unexploited Treasure
• Mohammed A. Bakari
• CHAPTER 16
• Roots Not Seeds: A Case Study of the Origins of Two Successful African Philanthropic Institutions
• Jenny Hodgson
• References