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Research Articles · Vol. 11 (1) · 2026
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 11 (1) · 2026
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…
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. 10 (1) · 2025
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…
Research Articles · Vol. 10 (1) · 2025
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…
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
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. 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. 8 (1) · 2023
This study re-examines the phenomenon of Stockholm syndrome within the context of Boko Haram, aiming to understand the intricate relationship between radicalization leading to extremism and mutuality building within the group. Conventional interpretations of Stockholm syndrome, w…
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
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…
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…
