ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a systematic consideration of business ethics within Africa. In terms of academic business ethics, the first comprehensive and valid baseline study for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was published in 2000. In Southern Africa, activity continued to be almost exclusively concentrated in South Africa, whereas East Africa was identified as the region in which business ethics-related activities were the most evenly dispersed across countries. The strong focus on corruption and corporate misconduct also relates to the manner in which business ethics terminology is used. The academic business ethics agenda is closely related to governance considerations due to the manner in which the role of business enterprise is articulated in many governance regimes in SSA. The foregoing discussion of some of the developments of capitalism in Africa already points to a number of structural features that mark the African business landscape as fundamentally different from that of the developed world.
