Results for "Leadership"

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…

Agaciro, or what Rwanda thinks of development

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…

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…

Comparative Analysis of EU and Kenyan Responses to Somali Piracy: A Leadership Perspective

This article uses a leadership as process framework to examine the degree of mutuality that existed between EU and Kenyan responses to Somali piracy between roughly 2008 and 2012. In so doing, it seeks to comprehend whether regional and extra-regional actors had similar experienc…

Developmental State and Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia:: Is Leadership the Missing Link?

The ethnic federalization of the post-1991 Ethiopia and the subsequent adoption of developmental state paradigm are the two most important pillars for the country’s political and economic restructuring. An interventionist developmental state model is opted for against the dominan…

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…

Community-led Leadership for Urban Youth: Food-Based Learning and Rites of Passage for Transformation

Research shows that urban youth in the UK face educational challenges linked to poverty, structural inequalities, and environments.[1] Programmes providing different experiential learning opportunities can potentially engage these learners more effectively than traditional educat…

South Sudanese Youth Agency in a Time of COVID-19: Insights on Youth, Leadership & The Opportunity of Crisis

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

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…

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…