Adjunct Professor Bhekinkosi Moyo
African Philanthropy
Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS:
Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives; Principles and Fundamentals on Fundraising; Introduction to African Philanthropy and Gifting; Landscaping African Philanthropy; Finance for Social Enterprises; Liquid Leadership.
Other Teaching Experience:
Guest lecturing at other universities including Cambridge University’s Centre for Strategic Philanthropy; University of Geneva’s Centre for Philanthropy, and University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights.
Research Interests:
African politics; global governance; development; civil society; philanthropy; social investment; political economy; International Political Economy (IPE); South-South relations; democracy; pan-Africanism, African regional integration and social corporate investment (shared value).
Industry and Professional Experience:
Previous experience includes Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Africa Trust from 2014 to 2018; Deputy Executive Director of the Southern Africa Trust; Director of Programmes at Trust Africa; Research Fellow at Trust Africa; Senior Researcher, Centre for Governance, IDASA; Research Specialist at the Africa Institute of South Africa, and Research Manager at Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, Johannesburg.
Board memberships include International Advisory Council Member of Afrobarometer; SIVIO Institute-Board Chair; Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa-Board Chair; International Society for Third Sector Research (Secretary of the Board - 2014, board member to date); Accountability Lab-Zimbabwe (Founding Board member 2020); Alliance Magazine Editorial Board (2014 to date), and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (NVSQ) Editorial Board member (2019 to date).
Professional memberships include International Society for Third Sector Research; Association for Research on Nonprofit Organisations and Voluntary Action; Association for Research on Civil Society in Africa, and Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Recent consultancies:
Barriers to civil society’s efforts to build capacity and scale up (Vodafone Report); COVID 19 and its effects on civil society advocacy in Africa (Advocacy Accelerator Report); Governing the shrinking civic space in Africa Governance Institute-CODESRIA (Director); The civic shrinking space for women and girls, CODESRIA (main report); Policy brief on the civic space for women and girls; Associations and associational life in Zimbabwe, UNDP Human Development Report (Chapter contribution); CSOs’ readiness to adapt and adopt 4th Industrial Revolution strategies - A study of 50 CSOs in Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe Institute Report); Development of a resource mobilisation strategy for SARW (Southern Africa Resource Watch); Development of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies organisational strategy.
Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions:
Moyo, B., & Alagidede, I. P. (2020). Birth of the International Review on Philanthropy and Social Investment. International Review on Philanthropy and Social Investment 1(1), 1-4.
Herzog, P. S., Strohmeier, A., King, D. P., Khader, R. A., Williams, A. L., Goodwin, J. L., Doan, D. R. H., & Moyo, B. (2020). Religiosity and generosity: Multi-level approaches to studying the religiousness of prosocial actions. Religions, 11 (446).
Moyo, B. (2020). Managing transitions and leading African civil society organisations in the 21st century. In NGO Leadership Transitions. ARNOVA: Indianapolis
Other Scholarly Contributions:
Editor of The International Review on Philanthropy and Social Investment.
Academic journal reviewer: Voluntas - International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organisations; Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly; Journal of Business Ethics; Journal of Asian and African Studies; Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society; African Development.
Recent Media:
Moyo, B. (2019). What is philanthropy? A review of its meaning and purpose. Review of SA Philanthropy. IPASA.