African Leadership: Where Powerful Paradigms are Unearthed Through Radical Scholarship and Scholar–Practitioner Dialogue

Abstract

Whereas leadership has existed on the continent of Africa as long as African peoples therein, the study of the same is limited in scope, depth and availability. Even as African scholars decry this dearth of available literature, they are at the same time actively involved in remedying the situation. In this chapter, the author attempts to answer a couple of questions: what is African about African Leadership? How can we engage in radical scholarship of African leadership? The author concludes with an invitation to readers of the edited volume to answer those two questions for themselves, as well as allow the chapters to help them rethink their own position and practices, arguing that leadership scholarship is always about both theory building and enhanced practice.

Citation

Ngunjiri, F.W. (2023), "African Leadership: Where Powerful Paradigms are Unearthed Through Radical Scholarship and Scholar–Practitioner Dialogue", Elkington, R., Ngunjiri, F.W., Burgess, G.J., Majola, X., Schwella, E. and de Klerk, N. (Ed.) African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-045-120231002