Conflicting leadership paradigms in Africa: a need for an African Renaissance perspective

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Title:	Conflicting leadership paradigms in Africa: a need for an African Renaissance perspective
Author:	Mboup, Samba Buri
Year:	2008
Periodical:	International Journal of African Renaissance Studies
Volume:	3
Issue:	1
Pages:	94-112
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	leadership ideologies
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/18186870802321608
Abstract:	This article looks at key elements of leadership paradigms in Africa. A timeline is drawn and Africa's contemporary leadership in the past 50 years is situated within three periods, each of which is anchored by an event(s) that shifted the continent's political and/or intellectual and theoretical landscape. Juxtaposed against these periods is traditional leadership and its cross-cutting role in governance in Africa. Current manifestations of crisis in the leadership paradigm are looked at, which draws the author to critique what he terms the matrix that produces the contemporary generation of leaders.The author advocates the incorporation of Africa's historical and cultural legacy as a cornerstone in new leadership paradigms, and places it within the context of an African Renaissance. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract]