Saïd Business School is celebrating two important occasions: International Women’s Day and hosting the Oxford Africa Business Forum 2024. The Sainsbury Library has decided to join in the celebrations with two different but complementary displays.

We have a window display at our library entrance, train station side, showcasing the library’s ebook collection of titles relating to doing business, entrepreneurship, and women’s empowerment in Africa. Our second display showcases books primarily from our physical collection, with a focus on women in business and women’s economic empowerment globally. Remember to look at both sides of the display. One side shows our books focused on the African continent and the other has books focused on women, business, and inclusion. To help you navigate each display, the titles have been split up into different categories.

The library would like to highlight that the books can be borrowed by students and staff within Saïd Business School and across the wider university community. Please see our library information page for our opening hours. Most of the ebooks will require a University of Oxford Single-Sign-On but, as highlighted below, some are open access and available to anyone!

Window Display
For our Window Display, the focus is on celebrating Oxford Africa Business Forum 2024 which is marking its 15^th anniversary this year! The forum’s theme this year is Business as a Force for Nation Building and ‘is centred on the integral role businesses play in national development.’¹ This is a perfect chance for the library to share and showcase its resources relating to Africa and Business. The display contains descriptions of the books and a QR code to access the ebook. Please note that many of the titles require an Oxford SSO but some on the list are open access.

Business and Development books
Our first category of books links to the Oxford Africa Business Forum’s theme of business and development within the continent.

• The business of sustainable development in Africa : human rights, partnerships, alternative business models (physical) – edited by Ralph Hamann, Stu Woolman, Courtenay Sprague
• Africapitalism : sustainable business and development in Africa (ebook)-edited by Uwafiokun Idemudia and Kenneth Amaeshi
• 50 years of Central Banking in Kenya (ebook)-Edited by Patrick Njoroge, Victor Murinde
• Made in Africa: learning to compete in industry (open access ebook)- edited by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand, Abebe Shimeles, Måns Söderbom, Finn Tarp.
• Africa’s Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World’s Next Big Growth Market (ebook) -By Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, Georges Desvaux
• Doing business in Africa : from economic growth to societal development (ebook)- edited by Suzanne M. Apitsa, Eric Milliot

Entrepreneurship and Leadership books
Our second category of books links to the school’s wider Oxford Saïd Africa Initiative and the Oxford Africa Business Alliance which aim to invest in Africa, support the next generation of African leaders, and to ‘stimulate a vigorous dialogue about business, investment and entrepreneurship in Africa’².

• Developing global leaders: insights from African case studies (ebook)– By Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng’weno, Helen Spencer-Oatey.
• Entrepreneurship in Africa (open access ebook)-edited by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Chibuike Uche
• Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach (open access ebook and physical-read-in-library only)- edited by Moses E. Ochonu
• Women and Leadership (physical)- by Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Women’s Empowerment:
Our third category of books focus on women’s economic empowerment and includes a book on leadership co-authored by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who is a global financial and economics expert and the first woman and first African to be director general of the World Trade Organisation. These titles are also part of our International Women’s Day display to highlight the link between the two themes.

• Enterprising women: expanding economic opportunities in Africa (ebook)-by Mary Hallward-Driemeier
• Empowering women: legal rights and economic opportunities in Africa (ebook)- Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Tazeen Hasan
• Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia (physical)- edited by Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie and Arjan de Haan
• Women and Leadership (physical)- by Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Book Display
Our physical book display primarily showcases books from our library’s general business collection which can be found in our Annexe room. The display has books on a wide range of topics from philosophers reimagining human development and public policy to women sharing their workplace experiences and career tips for women. There is something here for every reader!

Whilst not creating the display with IWD’s theme of ‘Inspiring Inclusivity’ in mind, the books on display highlight the theme throughout. The display has books from diverse authors such as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Saadia Zahid, and Junheng Li. Titles have also been picked that showcase the international side of our collection.

Historical Books – all physical:

• Kimono in the boardroom : the invisible evolution of Japanese women managers – by Jean R. Renshaw
• Women workers and the trade unions– by Sarah Boston

Books on leadership, careers, and working women’s lives-all physical books:

• Fifty million rising : the new generation of working women transforming the Muslim world– by Saadia Zahidi
• Tiger woman on Wall Street : winning business strategies from Shanghai to New York and back-by Junheng Li.
• Earning it : hard-won lessons from trailblazing women at the top of the business world–by Joann S. Lublin
• Wonder women : sex, power, and the quest for perfection -by Debora L. Spar
• Make your own map: career success strategy for women–by Kathryn Bishop (associate fellow)
• Women & leadership : lessons from some of the world’s most powerful women-by Julia Gillard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Books on philosophical and economical empowerment-ebooks and physical:

• Amartya Sen’s work and ideas: a gender perspective-edited by Bina Agarwal, Jane Humphries & Ingrid Robeyns.
• Women and human development: the capabilities approach-by Martha C. Nussbaum
• Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia (physical and ebook)- edited by Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie and Arjan de Haan

These titles are also included in our Oxford Africa Business Forum window display but link to International Women’s Day.

• Enterprising women: expanding economic opportunities in Africa (open access ebook)-by Mary Hallward-Driemeier
• Empowering women: legal rights and economic opportunities in Africa (open access ebook)- Mary Hallward-Driemeier and Tazeen Hasan
• The business of sustainable development in Africa : human rights, partnerships, alternative business models– edited by Ralph Hamann, Stu Woolman, Courtenay Sprague
• Entrepreneurship in Africa : a historical approach (open access ebook and physical-read-in-library only)- edited by Moses E. Ochonu

References
1. Africa Business Forum (n.d) Available at: https://www.oxfordafricaforum.com/ (Accessed: 7 March 2024)
2. Oxford Africa Business Alliance (n.d). Available at: https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/school/our-community/oxford-africa-business-alliance (Accessed 7 March 2024)