Women and Finance in Africa

Chapter 1: Gendered Finance: Inclusion and Transformation.- Chapter 2: Informal financial services in the financial inclusion matrix: gendered perspectives from Kenya and Zimbabwe.- Chapter 3: Understanding financial inclusion in Africa from the perspective of saving and borrowing patterns.- Chpater 4: The Political Socioeconomic Fallout of the Mismanagement of COVID-19 Public Funds in South Africa.- Chapter 5: Re-imagining informal settlements as spaces for enhancing women informal entrepreneurship in South Africa: a financial inclusion perspective.- Chapter 6: The Role of Institutions in Promoting Financial Inclusion of MSMEs in Zimbabwe.- Chapter 7: Fintech and Financial inclusion: Closing the gender gap.- Chapter 8: Financing Women and Gender Inclusion in Cote d'Ivoire's Peacebuilding Process.- Chapter 9: Digital Financial Inclusion for Women in Africa: Prospects and Challenges.- Chapter 10: Gender and Digital Financial Inclusion: Assessment of Rural/Urban Dichotomy in Microfinance and Table Banking Operations in ECOWAS.- Chapter 11: Gendered Dimension for Digital Financial Inclusion in Nigeria.

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