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Africa’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century: What Can Leaders Learn from Africa’s Pre-Colonial Leadership and Governance?

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dc.creator Poncian, Japhace
dc.creator Mgaya, Edward
dc.date 2016-04-21T13:35:44Z
dc.date 2016-04-21T13:35:44Z
dc.date 2015-04-09
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:46:55Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:46:55Z
dc.identifier Poncian J and Mgaya, E (2015) Africa’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century: What can Leaders Learn from Africa’s Pre-colonial Leadership and Governance? International Journal of Social Science Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 106-115
dc.identifier http://ssrn.com/abstract=2623952
dc.identifier URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v3i3.710
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1611
dc.identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2623952
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9802
dc.description Africa continues to face serious development challenges despite recent record growth rates. Such challenges as dependency, corruption, underdeveloped infrastructure and production sectors, and leadership and governance are some of the impediments to Africa’s quest for sustainable and equitable development. Explaining such development challenges has continued to elude scholars. To the radical leftist scholars, Africa’s underdevelopment can adequately be explained by its forceful and uneven integration into the global economic system. However, with over fifty years of independence, the debate is increasingly focusing on Africa’s leadership as good explanation for its poverty and underdevelopment. This paper argues that the current poverty and underdevelopment of Africa have much to do with enabling conditions created by African leaders and proposes that addressing this requires Africans to go back to pre-colonial history where they can tap good lessons rather than continuing importing Western based models which may not necessarily fit into Africa’s unique characteristics.
dc.language en
dc.publisher RedFame
dc.subject leadership
dc.subject governance
dc.subject Africa
dc.subject pre-colonial
dc.title Africa’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century: What Can Leaders Learn from Africa’s Pre-Colonial Leadership and Governance?
dc.type Journal Article


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