Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa: Leadership in Transformation

ISBN-13: 9781137563576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 310 str.

Ebenezer Obadare; Wale Adebanwi; Ebenezer Obadare

Opis

This volume advances a slowly coalescing consensus around the imperative to ground discussions of leadership in Africa in the longue duree of the continent's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. It illuminates the conditions under which political leadership in postcolonial Africa has been produced, and the extent to which those conditions have shaped the kind of leaders and leadership paths which have consistently emerged across the continent. More often than not, popular rhetoric on leadership in African politics has tended to swing between the extremes of absolute condemnation or unqualified approval, with leaders themselves little more than a convenient lightning rod, victims of a tedious routine in which snap judgment tends to precede, or at times displace, academic deliberation. In a long-overdue departure, this volume approaches leadership as an intersecting variable, one that influences and is at the same time determined and influenced by the constraints and opportunities of its immediate ecology. In this approach, leadership is as much an analytic model that explains, as it is a conundrum that is presented for elucidation.

Recenzje

"This book offers an account of some of the historical manifestations of positive leadership in Africa ... . this book presents a collection of well-researched studies into political leadership in Africa which offers useful empirical insights into the prevailing atmospherics of governance that influenced the emergence of specific leadership styles in different contexts. The book is therefore essential reading for scholars concerned with political development, democratization and leadership in Africa." (John Olushola Magbadelo, African Affairs, Vol. 117 (469), October, 2018)

O autorze

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Professor and Head, Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, South Africa Olúf?e??mi Táíwò, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, USA Samuel Zalanga, Professor of Sociology, Bethel University, USA Warris Vianni, Independent Scholar, Kenya Basile Ndjio, Professor of Social Anthropology, African Studies Center, University of Douala, Cameroon Enocent Msindo, Associate Professor of History, Rhodes University, South Africa Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman and Founder, Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development, Nigeria William Reno, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, USA Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Washington M. Wingate Professor of Religion, Wake Forrest University, USA Okechukwu C. Iheduru, Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, USA Gbemisola A. Animasawun, Lecturer at Center for Peace and Strategic Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria