In November of year 2022, our colleague and research associate from KO-Idea, Zimbabwe and South Africa, Smart Zongololo completed his PhD in Management of Innovation and Technology with Da Vinci Institute of Technology, under the guidance and supervision of Professor Ronnie Lessem and Professor Alexander Schieffer. The title of his research was: Communiversity: An Innovation […]
The Idea of Communiversity & the Story Telling as Experiential Learning Prof Alejandro Cañadas Ronnie Lessem, Anselm Adodo developed the idea of Communiversity, and Tony Bradley in their 2019 book “The idea of Communiversity: Releasing the Natural, Cultural, Technological and Economic GENE-ius of Societies.” Their book has practically responded to the educational crisis they have surveyed […]
How do we tell the business story? Prof Alejandro Cañadas There are many stories of profit and non-profit organizations out there. How do we disentangle the good ones from the bad ones? For some people, the stories of Arthur Andersen, Enron, Parmalat, and Berni Madoff were great stories of money-making, success, and power until they lasted. […]
The Background and rationale of Nhakanomics The emerging communiversity in Zimbabwe specifically and the Global South in general is driven the need to re-GENE-rate society towards self-sufficiency within the context of nhakanomics which is relevant to our African indigenous socioeconomic practices. This is a radical departure from the notion of neo-liberal economic approach which is […]
Graduation Ceremony June 2019 Transformation Studies Foundation Program Launched in Pakistan Transformation Studies co-jointly launched in Pakistan, in collaboration with TRANS4M, Centre for Integral Development, Akhuwat Foundation & Integral Soulidarity Research Academy (iSRA). A LOCAL-GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE – RELEASING THE PAKISTANI GENE-IUS Following in the footsteps of our Nigerian TRANS4M associate, Ofure-Pax Integral Research and Development […]
Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation By Ronnie Lessem, Munyaradzi Mawere, Daud Taranhike Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, […]
The Board of Trans4m Communiversity Associates (TCA) in collaboration with Beacon Books invites you to a book circle/ launch of their recently published book; The Idea of the Communiversity. Across the world, we are facing a crisis in education at all levels: for some communities, schooling remains inaccessible, and for others, educational institutions have become elite […]
Fr Anselm Adodo, with the new postgraduate students of African Transformation Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, on August 2019. Like a breeze of fresh air in a stale academic atmosphere, Transformation studies applies an Integral approach to research under the meta-theme: ‘Researching Africa with African Eyes’. Some of the questions posed were: Can Africans […]
A LOOK AT NIGERIA’S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: A POST-WORKSHOP REFLECTION By Fr. Anselm Adodo It was an unusual gathering of University professors, heads of Department from various Universities and many PhDs. Scholars, thinkers, political activists, politicians and Students from various Nigerian Universities were there. The Deputy Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly was there to […]