Upcoming webinar:

TOPIC: Can Nigeria return from the precipice? Opportunities and challenges for Nigeria’s new leadership

Nigeria is Africa’s largest country, blessed with all manner of resources, and as the continent’s giant, it plays an important geopolitical role on the continent. Yet, the country has consistently failed to live up to its potential. More than 60 years after independence, Nigeria continues to underperform in almost all industries and sectors. Declining domestic and foreign investment, considerable debt burden, rampant corruption and inefficiency, and high unemployment are all immediate challenges facing the nation.

Can Nigeria’s incoming government face up to the enormous challenges to turn the economy around? Will society accept the sacrifices required to ensure Nigeria’s future? What lessons are there for other African economies?

We look forward to seeing you.

Date: 01  June 2023

Time: 17:30 - 19:00 SAST (GMT+2/ EST+7) 

Cost: Free

Location: Online via Zoom 

OTHER RESEARCH

Our research focus spans the following areas: 

• The strategies of multinational enterprises 
• Globalisation and international business regulation 
• International human resource management 
• The globalisation of technology and innovation and multinational enterprises 
• Economic development 

Apart from undertaking research projects and offering international business education, HBS Africa has funded the appointment of the first DAC fellow. In addition, PhD students will be jointly supervised by academics affiliated to both HBS Africa and Henley UK. Associate members for the sister centre have been appointed from across Africa. Active research projects include:  

1. Fostering exporter-buyer relationships for sustainable export performance in the South African agricultural industry  

Professor Danie Petzer from HBS Africa, Prof Marianne Matthee from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), and Dr Stefanie Kühn from Stellenbosch University are collaborating on a research project focusing on sustainable export performance in the South African agricultural industry. Ms Vickey de Villiers has been appointed as the researcher.

2. Enhancing food and nutrition security in South Africa 

HBS Africa and Dr Andrew Ainslie from the Department of International Development at the University of Reading are collaborating on a research project that centres on enhancing food and nutrition security in Africa. This project is based on one of the key recommendations for future research of the discussion paper, Agricultural and urban land in South Africa, that Dr Ainslie co-authored in 2019. A research project focusing on food and nutrition security in Africa will form the core of the collaboration, producing thought leadership pieces, such as webinars, white papers, conference papers, and journal articles.