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Most change management frameworks treat Ubuntu as a cultural footnote - a warm addition to a Western methodology. This article argues that Ubuntu is not an addition. It is the foundation. And building on it changes everything.
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Change resistance is not a problem to be overcome. It is a signal to be decoded. This article offers a practical framework for reading resistance - and using it to improve your change approach.
Lowen Smith
19 May 2026
Peter Drucker said culture eats strategy for breakfast. The AFRICA Change Framework takes this seriously - and builds it into a governing equation that every change practitioner should understand.
Lowen Smith
5 May 2026
The Lekgotla - the traditional Tswana gathering for collective decision-making - produces decisions that stick. Not because they are the best decisions, but because the process of reaching them creates ownership. Here is what change managers can learn from it.
Lowen Smith
21 April 2026
M-PESA was designed as a microfinance repayment tool. When Safaricom observed that users were transferring airtime as informal currency, they pivoted the entire product. This is the AFRICA framework's Adaptability principle in action - at scale.
Winning at Change Research
14 April 2026
Change fatigue is not about too much change. It is about too little community. The Harambee principle - collective effort and mutual support - offers a structural response to one of the most common challenges in organisational transformation.
Lowen Smith
7 April 2026
A survey of 340 change management practitioners across 12 African countries. Key findings: 78% report that Western frameworks do not adequately account for African cultural contexts. 64% have adapted or abandoned standard methodologies.
Winning at Change Research
1 March 2026
A synthesis of 15 culture transformation engagements across South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana. This white paper identifies the five factors that most reliably predict culture change success in African organisational contexts.
Lowen Smith
15 January 2026
Lowen Smith walks through the six principles of the AFRICA Change Framework, the Ubuntu philosophical foundation, and the governing equation. The clearest 20-minute introduction to the framework available.
Lowen Smith
10 May 2026
A recorded keynote from the 2026 African Change Management Summit. Lowen Smith on the difference between leading change in an African context and applying a Western leadership model to an African organisation.
Lowen Smith
28 April 2026
The first episode of the Winning at Change podcast. Lowen Smith on the gap in the change management market, the genesis of the AFRICA framework, and what it means to build intellectual property that is genuinely African.
Lowen Smith
1 June 2026
Lowen Smith in conversation with Dr. Ama Owusu, Ghanaian organisational psychologist, on the Sankofa principle - looking back to move forward - and its application in modern change management.
Lowen Smith & Dr. Ama Owusu
8 June 2026
A practical 20-point checklist for assessing organisational readiness before launching a change initiative. Based on the AFRICA Change Framework's six readiness dimensions. Free to download and use.
Winning at Change
15 May 2026
A clean, editable stakeholder mapping template aligned to the AFRICA framework's Inclusivity principle. Includes the Imbizo stakeholder engagement guide. Free PDF and editable Word version.
Winning at Change
1 May 2026
A practical 20-point checklist for assessing organisational readiness before launching a change initiative. Based on the AFRICA Change Framework's six readiness dimensions. Free to download and use.
Download FreeA clean, editable stakeholder mapping template aligned to the AFRICA framework's Inclusivity principle. Includes the Imbizo stakeholder engagement guide. Free PDF and editable Word version.
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