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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…

The Two Sudans at a Critical Juncture

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

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…

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

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 …

Mutuality on a spectrum: Ownership and Buy-In

Mutuality in leadership is the intangible element that connects leaders and followers together. Mutuality produces lasting results from the relationship of shared goals between leader and follower. However, there are degrees of mutuality that will dictate the type and longevity o…

Protest in Ethiopia: Examining Process-Based Leadership as a Way Forward

Ethiopia has been plunged into one of the worst crises in the recent history of the country with waves of protest and violence erupting in some parts of the country since 2014. The announcement of a draft integrated developmental plan for Addis Ababa and neighbouring towns and vi…

Leadership and the fight against HIV/AIDS denialism in South Africa: A case study of the Treatment Action Campaign