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.contributor.authorPoncian, Japhace
dc.contributor.authorMgaya, Edward
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-21T13:35:44Z
dc.date.available2016-04-21T13:35:44Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-09
dc.description.abstractAfrica 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPoncian 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, 106-115en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2623952
dc.identifier.otherhttp://ssrn.com/abstract=2623952
dc.identifier.uriURL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v3i3.710
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1611
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRedFameen_US
dc.subjectleadershipen_US
dc.subjectgovernanceen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.subjectpre-colonialen_US
dc.titleAfrica’s Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century: What Can Leaders Learn from Africa’s Pre-Colonial Leadership and Governance?en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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