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Community-led Leadership for Urban Youth: Food-Based Learning and Rites of Passage for Transformation

Research shows that urban youth in the UK face educational challenges linked to poverty, structural inequalities, and environments.[1] Programmes providing different experiential learning opportunities can potentially engage these learners more effectively than traditional educat…

Leadership Training for Middle Managers: An Organisational Turning Point

Middle managers' main desirable attributes are to have management and leadership skills, be able to influence their teams, demonstrate a methodical and disciplined approach, and convey the organisations values. Their main functions are to transmit the strategy of the executive ma…

Re-imagining Academic Leadership through Transformative Coaching: A Reflective Account from Uganda

This paper investigates how transformative coaching can enhance academic leadership development in Sub-Saharan Africa, using Uganda as a case study. The study responds to persistent challenges in higher education leadership, such as institutional complexity, gender inequities, em…

Examining Intricate Dynamics of Transformative Education among Junior Academic Staff in HEIs: A Nigerian Perspective

In higher education, transformative education has become a crucial paradigm for re-evaluating leadership, instruction, and learning. It places a strong emphasis on social change, technological innovation, inclusive education, and critical thinking. Although this strategy has beco…

Transformative Learning, Leadership, and Technology in Education: Experiences from Global South contexts

Welcome to this Special Issue of the Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies. This special issue is titled Transformative Learning, Leadership, and Technology in Education: Experiences from Global South contexts. This compilation forms part of African Leadership Centres Re…

The Two Sudans at a Critical Juncture

Youth Leadership in Wartime Ukraine: Resilience, Empowerment and Emerging Pathways

Since Russias full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian youth have emerged as central actors in humanitarian and civic initiatives. This study examines how these wartime conditions reshape leadership trajectories among young Ukrainians and identifies factors that sustain or hinder t…

Agaciro, or what Rwanda thinks of development

Against a background of highly polarised research on Rwanda, emerges a promising scholarly interest in Agaciro a worldview, means of livelihood and a political project that centres ideals of individual and collective dignity and self-worth.[1] This paper explores: in what ways do…

Mutual Aid and COVID-19 in London: Understanding Community Resilience

South Sudanese Youth Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Insights on Youth, Leadership & The Opportunity of Crisis

A Taoist Perspective on China's Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy and Implementation

Guinean leadership in the face of crisis, from Ebola to COVID-19

This paper, based on research undertaken during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluates Guineas leadership infrastructure from independence in 1958 until the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It determines that Guineas leadership can be characterized by a coercive soci…