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This book is a timely guide on what constitutes effective leadership in Africa. It explores how today´s leaders in Africa perceive their role, the challenges they experience, and how they operate effectively as leaders. In the era of globalization, there is an increasing need to offer guidance on how leaders can adjust their leadership style to suit situational contexts. This book illustrates to scholars and leaders how leadership can be developed and will contribute to the development of a new community of leaders, integrating cutting-edge knowledge on leadership development in Africa.

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Contents

1. Introduction

Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng´weno and Helen Spencer-Oatey

Part 1: Foundations

2. Global leadership: key concepts and frameworks

Helen Spencer - Oatey

3. Leadership in Africa: Past, Present & Future Perspectives

Estelle-Marie Heussen - Montgomery and Eva Jordans

4. The Historical, Political and Demographic Context of Leadership in Africa

Bettina Ng´weno

Part 2: Case Studies and S urvey findings

5. Methodology

Eva Jordans and Helen Spencer-Oatey

6. Young Leaders transforming Science in Ghana

Yaw Bediako and Eva Jordans

7. Leadership and culture in corporate organisations in Nigeria

Ike Nwankwo, Estelle-Marie Heussen - Montgomery and Eva Jordans

8. Bridging the generation gap: Perceptions of leadership by senior and young leaders in Tanzania

Mwatima Juma and Eva Jordans

9. Changing leadership perceptions: Leaders in the private sector in Kenya

Kanini Mutooni, Bettina Ng´weno and Eva Jordans

10. Emerging People-oriented Leadership in Rural development in Rwanda

Joseph K. Nsabimana and Eva Jordans

11. Leadership development needs and experiences: Survey findings

Helen Spencer-Oatey and Daniel Dauber

Part 3: Implications and applications

12. Understanding leadership and its development in Africa

Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng´weno and Helen Spencer-Oatey

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Eva Jordan´s academic background is in both International Land and water Management (MSc) and Intercultural Communication (MA). She has over 25 years´ experience in delivering results through supporting leadership and institutional development in Asia, Africa and Europe. She is a strategic program manager with a track record in roles such as international project manager, trainer in global leadership development programs and executive director in commercial companies. She currently works as an independent management consultant, predominantly supporting rural development programs across Africa and Asia.
Bettina Ng´weno is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. Trained as an anthropologist she works on issues of space, property, race and ethnicity, social justice, citizenship and states within Latin America and Africa. She authored the book Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State.
Helen Spencer-Oatey is Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Her books, both monographs and edited collections, include Culturally Speaking (2000/2008); Handbook of Intercultural Communication (2008, with Helga Kotthoff); and Intercultural Interaction (2009, with Peter Franklin).

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