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Research Articles · Vol. 7 (1) · 2022
This study examines the leadership dynamics within foreign intervention, utilising the identity leadership framework set out in The New Psychology of Leadership (Haslam, Reicher, Platow, 2020). Utilising the case study of Russia and France’s interventions in Mali, the work tests …
Research Articles · Vol. 7 (1) · 2022
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 11 (1) · 2026
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 9 (1) · 2024
COVID-19 posed an intense and prolonged threat to many aspects of societal life. Its global reach and impact was truly remarkable. This situation demanded a response that went beyond that of social mobilisation in normal times: it required the rapid deployment of the aggregation …
Research Articles · Vol. 9 (1) · 2024
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 6 (1) · 2021
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 3 (1) · 2018
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 9 (1) · 2024
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 6 (1) · 2021
This article explores the nature and patterns of Chinese-Nigeria trade relations between 1999 and 2019 through the theoretical prism of leadership. The period 1999-2019 captures the rising trends in investments and trade relations between China and Nigeria and the latter’s effort…
Research Articles · Vol. 2 (1) · 2017
This article is motivated in part by the need to respond to the classical peacebuilding dilemma of ‘conflict relapse’. It finds that international peacebuilding efforts rely overwhelmingly on person and position-based leadership perspectives, which provide mixed results at best. …
Research Articles · Vol. 2 (1) · 2017
This article examines the main leadership components of peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba. It identifies the leadership factors associated with the success of the four-year peace process that …
Research Articles · Vol. 1 (1) · 2016
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…
