Results for "Horn of Africa"

The Internet, Social Media Gagging and Participatory Democracy in the Horn of Africa

Governments across the globe seek opportunities at regular intervals to exercise state-power and control over aspects of society. This is not limited to dictatorships and centralized party states alone; the beginning of the internet age saw the conflicts over who has rights over …

A framework for understanding the Horn of Africa

This commentary piece offers a framework for understanding the situations encountered in the Horn of Africa sub-region. It offers something of a framework within a framework by highlighting a series of issues and factors that must be unpacked to understand better the context of t…

Leadership-as-Process and International Relations: Re-examining Agency within China-Africa Relations

This article argues for a re-examination of Chinas engagement with Africa from a leadership perspective. A leadership-as-process framework of analysis recognises leadership as an interactive, dynamic process and better explains the multi-levelled, multi-dimensional nature of agen…

Social Distancing and Distanced Societies: A Case study of leadership in the early days of COVID-19 in South Africa

The outbreak of COVID-19 This paper provides a leadership analysis of the first five months of the COVID-19 response in South Africa. Societal mobilisation requires a unified and rapid response to crisis, meaning that effective leadership must reach all areas of society. This pap…

Leadership and Development in Postcolonial Africa: The cases of Botswana, Somalia and Somaliland

Scholars have routinely identified weak and ineffective institutions as the root cause of underdevelopment across Africa. Such findings, which place emphasis on ‘institutional systems’ and ‘state mechanisms’, too often neglect the critical leadership dimensions of development cha…

Leadership and the Comparative Origin of Pro-developmental Ruling Coalitions in Ethiopia and Rwanda

What does it take to forge a pro-developmental ruling coalition in Africa? This paper answers this question based on a comparative study of the origin of pro-developmental ruling coalitions in Rwanda under Kagame and Ethiopia under Meles. The paper approaches the emergence of pro…

Leadership and Statebuilding in Post-Colonial Africa:: The Case of Cameroon

Changing perceptions of security threats post the 9/11 attacks in the United States of America saw the advancement of the idea that international security depended upon fixing fragile states. Based on this premise, statebuilding was constructed as a viable approach to building pe…

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…

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…

The Treatment Action Campaign's Fight for People Living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Reflections from a Leadership Perspective

The Leadership approach of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Africa: A Case Study of TECNO

The definition of leadership, as popularly conceived, comes from the West. In Chinese culture, the term ‘leadership’ is mainly reflected in the Chinese ‘Confucian culture’. Based on the analysis of the African market of Chinese enterprise ‘TRANSSION’ and its subsidiary TECNO, thi…

African Agency within Confucius Institutes? Challenges to equal cultural exchange between CIs and African host countries

According to Okoth-Okombo, language policy and economic development in Africa play a significant role in ensuring effective participation of large sectors of society in development activities and the public platform.[1] During a time when Sino-African trade and cooperation is at …