# Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/giving-help-helping-give-context-politics-african-philanthropy/
- Published: 2013-10-01T12:12:37+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**_Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy
_explores African philanthropic experiences, their varieties, challenges and opportunities.
It documents, analyses and reflects on philanthropy in Africa. **

In the past decade, 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 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.

_Giving to Help, Helping to Give_ deftly explores African philanthropic experiences,
their varieties, challenges and opportunities. It is about documenting, investigating,
describing, analysing and reflecting on philanthropy in Africa. This ground-breaking
book rightly tackles the varied modes, forms, vehicles and means in which philanthropy
is expressed in multifaceted 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.

**Contributors:** Tade Akin Aina • Mohammed A. Bakari • Bertha Chiroro • Kwaku Asante
Darko • Marwa El Daly • Alan Fowler • Ibrahima Hathie • Jenny Hodgson • Andrew Kingman•
Christa L. Kuljian • Halima Mahomed • Bhekinkosi Moyo • Robert Muponde • James Muzondidya•
Connie Ngondi-Houghton • Kayode Samuel • Fondo Sikod • Mohamadou Sy • Gérard Tchouassi•
Susan Wilkinson-Maposa • Saïda Yahya-Othman

**Tade Akin Aina**, currently the Program Director, Higher Education and Libraries
in Africa for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, studied Sociology at the University
of Lagos, Nigeria, and Sociology of Development at the London School of Economics,
and holds a DPhil from the University of Sussex, UK.