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Leadership and Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau: Examining the coup of 14 September 2003

Leadership is rarely interrogated in the analysis of peacebuilding contexts. The dominant peacebuilding approaches focus on institutional building rather than on the relationship between leaders and the wider society. This paper examines the conceptual and practical connection be…

Major Leadership Features of the Peace Process in Colombia

This article examines the main leadership components of peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Havana, Cuba. It identifies the leadership factors associated with the success of the four-year peace process that …

Leadership Emergence in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The role of Women in Peacebuilding

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…

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…

The Internet, Social Media Gagging and Participatory Democracy in the Horn of Africa

Governments across the globe seek opportunities at regular intervals to exercise state-power and control over aspects of society. This is not limited to dictatorships and centralized party states alone; the beginning of the internet age saw the conflicts over who has rights over …

Leadership and Development in Postcolonial Africa: The cases of Botswana, Somalia and Somaliland

Scholars have routinely identified weak and ineffective institutions as the root cause of underdevelopment across Africa. Such findings, which place emphasis on ‘institutional systems’ and ‘state mechanisms’, too often neglect the critical leadership dimensions of development cha…

Righting land wrongs with the pen: The leadership of Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ken Saro Wiwa

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,…

Leadership Emergence and Style: Fidel Castro of Cuba

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…

Leadership and Natural Resource Management: Linkages to the Persistence of Oil-related Conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta

This paper explores the relationship between leadership and natural resource management and the persistence of oil-related conflicts in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. It adopts the process theoretical approach to leadership. The key argument is that the space for conversations between le…

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

The Africa Mining Vision: A Panacea to the challenges of the African mining sector or another mirage?