The Network for Practice and Process Management Studies Drawing on the African Empirical Setting, is a joint initiative led by Warwick Business School (WBS) and the University of Stellenbosch Business School (SBS). Our aim is to scope out current knowledge about African management practices, to develop relevant theoretical perspectives, to enable networking among scholars seeking to carry out practice-based studies on the African continent and to strengthen capacity towards qualitative empirical research in Africa. We contend that such enabling activities are critical to unlocking future actionable opportunities for fruitful collaborations between qualitative researchers from the global North and South who are interested in understanding how management phenomena unfold in Africa.