IAABD Five Years After: Looking Back To the Future.

This paper reflects on conferences of the first five years of the International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD: 2000—2004) focusing specifically on the conference proceedings. The papers presented at the five conferences and published in its proceedings were reviewed and analysed in terms of functional areas covered, the research methodologies employed as well as the geographical spread and country focus of the authors. The analysis demonstrates a number of significant achievements for IAABD and identifies a number of challenges for the future.