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Diaspora 'leadership' in post conflict societies: Understanding diaspora influence through remittances in Liberia

While they are often considered as ‘outsiders’ or ‘far removed’ from their contexts, the reality is diaspora populations are, in fact, often intertwined in and significant to what happens in their home countries – this is especially true in many post-conflict contexts. Existing s…

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

Leadership Styles as Perceived in the Changing Aviation Industry and their Effect on Pilot Commitment: A Kenyan Case Study

This study focuses on a Kenyan-based airline and investigates how leadership influences the commitment of its pilots. The need for this study emerged from the changes that affected the aviation industry in the past years, including COVID-19, political unrest, fluctuation of oil p…

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…

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 Dynamics in Foreign Interventions: Russia and France in Mali 2012-2022

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 …

Chinese Funded Projects and Open Governance in Kenya

This article examines how Kenyan civil society uses open governance to call for government accountability around debt acquisition from China. Through two case studies, I illustrate how strategic litigation has become a framework through which civil society exercises leadership fr…

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 …

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…

Chinese Investments in Nigeria and the Political Economy of Trade, 1999 - 2019: A Leadership Perspective

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…

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