Achieving Sustainable Development Goals 2030 in Africa: A Critical Review of the Sustainability of Western Approaches

David Abdulai (), Ortrud Knauf () and Linda O’Riordan ()
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David Abdulai: African Graduate School of Management and Leadership
Ortrud Knauf: KompetenzCentrum for Corporate Social Responsibility, FOM University of Applied Science
Linda O’Riordan: KompetenzCentrum for Corporate Social Responsibility, FOM University of Applied Science

A chapter in The Future of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2020, pp 3-44 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This Chapter examines the SustainableSustainable DevelopmentSustainable development GoalsSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (SDGs) from an African perspective. Focusing on how the strategiesStrategy of governmentsGovernment and policy makers, as well as the Corporate Responsibility (CR)Corporate Responsibility (CR) of business can contribute to meet the SDGs 2030, it traces the development of western concepts of SustainabilitySustainability, CR, and Corporate Social Social ResponsibilityCorporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to investigate their suitability, relevance, and impact in an African-specific context. This qualitativeQualitative review, which is based exclusively on secondary data, establishes the rationale for its ultimate contribution: The recommendation to consider a new African concept of CR emanating from the practices followed in the Ubuntu Ubuntu approach. The authors reason that to most optimally meet the SDGs 2030 the Ubuntu Ubuntu philosophy facilitates a suitable, practical, and applicable response to the particular context of the African environment and cultureCulture. Triggered by the serious developmental challenges faced by the African continent, including povertyPoverty, educationEducation, health, industrialisation, and environmental protectionEnvironmental protection, the Chapter focuses on how to achieve the SDGsSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in Africa. The applicability of western sustainabilitySustainability and CR concepts are critically examined and five conclusions, as well as an outlook are presented, advocating why Sustainability and CR concepts could become even more important in future African business.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21154-7_1

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