Public Sector Marketing Communications, Volume II

Part 1: Traditional and Digital Perspectives on Public Sector Marketing Communications.- Chapter 1: Traditional and Digital Perspectives on Public Sector Marketing Communications.- Part 2: Advertising and Direct Marketing.- Chapter 2: Public Service Advertising and Celebrity endorsement in Ghana.- Chapter 3: Direct Marketing in the Kenyan Public Sector.- Part 3: Digital and Social Media Marketing. - Chapter 4: Using Social Media by Ghanaian district Assemblies.- Chapter 5: Digital technology and emergency risk communication of African governments: experiences and lessons from Covid-19.- Chapter 6:  Optimising social media and marketing communication strategies for voter education: A way forward for Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Nigeria.- Chapter 7: Social Media Adoption in Public Sector Communication: Current practices, opportunities and challenges in Public Sector Organisations.- Part 4: Conclusions.- Chapter 8: Providing a Roadmap for Effective Public Sector Marketing Communications in Africa.

Ogechi Adeola is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Head of the Department of Operations, Marketing and Information Systems at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. Her research interests include marketing communications and brand management, tourism and hospitality marketing, strategic marketing and digital marketing in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a Visiting International Fellow at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2016) and a 2017 Paul R Lawrence Fellow, USA. She has co-authored four academic books, edited over five others, and published academic papers in top scholarly journals, including Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Business Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Psychology and Marketing, and International Marketing Review. Her co-authored papers won Best Paper Awards at international conferences in 2016-2019, consecutively. She is Series editor of Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies (Palgrave Macmillan).

 Kojo Kakra Twum is a Lecturer at Presbyterian University College, Department of Business Administration and Economics, and a doctoral student at the University of Cape Coast, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. As a marketing academic, he has been involved in training public sector organisations in adopting marketing strategies to enhance their effectiveness. He has publications in the areas of service marketing, political marketing, and public organisation marketing. He is co-Editor of Responsible Management (2021, Palgrave Macmillan).

Paul Katuse is an Associate Professor of business administration in the SUC School of Business in Sharjah UAE. Paul is a strategy and leadership expert trainer. He is an experienced academic who has worked in several countries in Asia, Africa and the middle east. He has consulted with the public sector and the private sector in Kenya and his main