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This study examines Fidel Castro’s leadership emergence and style in Cuba with reference to the situation, goals sought, leadership process and the outcomes. The emergence of Fidel Castro was underpinned by the qualities he exhibited and significant popular support he enjoyed fr…
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…
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…
This article analyses the leadership of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Ken Saro Wiwa in the protection of indigenous communities’ land rights in Kenya and Nigeria respectively. It uses a case study and ‘leadership as process’ approach to focus on events and actions by Ngugi and Saro Wiwa,…
In the last two decades following the 1994 genocide, Rwanda has been praised internationally for its strong leadership and revamped governance structures. This has resulted in rapid economic development, restorative justice, homegrown peacebuilding approaches, the tackling of cor…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
