Women and Finance in Africa

This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent. The book uses a qualitative research method and presents both primary to secondary data to narrate the impact of gender-responsive budgeting on women's empowerment and gender equality in these communities. The chapters present the analysis of the effectiveness of African state’ approaches and share lessons that different African economies, whether currently booming or struggling, can enhance or implement toward the financial inclusion and gender budgeting response at all structural levels. The main objectives of this volume are to understand different processes for financial inclusion to gender issues at a national level and to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learned between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and addressed.

Prof Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Pan African Thought and Conversation. She is also the Pan African Women Studies unit head at the Institute of Pan African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg. She is very passionate, energetic, and authentic with her approaches. She is a GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER, EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT, and MENTORING COACH who impacts others for PURPOSE! She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Pretoria. Her master’s and honours were in Development Studies from UNISA. As a feminist political economist, her work explores gender and politics, the gendered dimension of trade, financial inclusion, sustainable development goals, digital transformation in policy, politics and digitalisation, international political economy, gender inequality and poverty reduction strategies. Tinuade has published many works on gender and development policy and the IMF’s external relations with Africa, BRICS, Southern Africa, and West Africa, focusing on the political economy of trade and aid. In addition, she has acted as a peer reviewer for renowned scientific journals.

Additionally, Tinuade has held and still holds various administrative portfolios, including tutor, supervisor, usher, mentor, and administrator for postgraduate students. She is an Associate Editor for the African Journal for Political Science (AJPS), and BRICS Journal and Managing Editor and Researcher for the Digital Policy Studies Unit (4DPRU) at Johannesburg. Tinuade is a member of international and local associates, CAAS, IPSA, AAPS, ASA, DSA, UNASA UP, SACE, SAAPS, and others. Tinuade was the African Association of Political Science (AAPS) program officer. She was also responsible for Partnership and Resource Mobilization for CBW-Africa and has received many awards, scholarships and grants, presented at local and international conferences.

Tinuade has also worked with several civil societies and international institutions to advance the course on women’s economic empowerment and sustainability. Her recent work debates “• Ojo, TA. (2023). “The Politics of Financial Inclusion in South Africa: Evolution and Lessons”. Springer. Released July 23rd 2023. Hardcopy ISBN 978-981-99-1846-1, e-Book ISBN 978-981-99-1847-8” and “Ojo, T.A. (2023). Exploring Digital and Financial Divide and Its Effects on South African Women’s Engagement in Entrepreneurship. In: Osman, A., Nagle, J., Tripathi, S. (eds) The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities. UEDC 2022. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham.