Building public sector image and trust in Africa requires judicious use of appropriate marketing communications tools and platforms. Contributing authors to this second volume of a two-volume work offer insights into how the selection and strategic utilisation of marketing tools will facilitate interactions between the government and the citizens, improve inter-governmental and inter-agency collaboration, and boost a citizen-oriented public sector. Traditional marketing communications tools continue to play a key role in citizen and public sector relationships; however, given mega-trends of demographic change, urbanisation, and digitalisation in Africa, it is important to consider how public institutions, including government agencies, local government, universities, and football associations, respond and adapt to these changes. The digital revolution presents an opportunity for public sector institutions to align their communication plans with new technologies, particularly leveraging social media platforms.
Together with the first volume, which focuses on public relations and brand communication perspectives, this collection fills an existing information gap evident in Africa's public sector literature. The text serves as a decision making, teaching, and learning guide for practitioners, faculty, and students interested in applying marketing principles and practices to the public sector.
Ogechi Adeola is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of the Department of Operations, Marketing and Information Systems at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. Her research interests include marketing communications and brand management, tourism and hospitality marketing, strategic marketing and digital marketing in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a Visiting International Fellow at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2016) and a 2017 Paul R Lawrence Fellow, USA. She has co-authored four academic books, edited over five others, and published academic papers in top scholarly journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology and Marketing, and International Marketing Review. Her co-authored papers won Best Paper Awards at international conferences in 2016-2019, consecutively. She is Series editor of Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies (Palgrave Macmillan).
Kojo Kakra Twum is a Lecturer at Presbyterian University College, Department of Business Administration and Economics, and a doctoral student at the University of Cape Coast, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. As a marketing academic, he has been involved in training public sector organisations in adopting marketing strategies to enhance their effectiveness. He has publications in the areas of service marketing, political marketing, and public organisation marketing. He is co-Editor of Responsible Management (2021, Palgrave Macmillan).
Paul Katuse is an Associate Professor of business administration in the SUC School of Business in Sharjah UAE. Paul is a strategy and leadership expert trainer. He is an experienced academic who has worked in several countries in Asia, Africa and the middle east. He has consulted with the public sector and the private sector in Kenya and his main interests are in global issues and their impacts on organizations in developing economies, organizational responses to change and reforms, globalization and the management of change in organizations. He has of late taken a keen interest in the way organisations and society interact and especially the linkages between an organization's strategic issues, their core businesses and the society's welfare. He believes in the concept of Corestra that is consulting, researching and training so as to bring an impact into the concerned party.
