Contents
Chapter 1
Leadership in Postcolonial Africa: An Introduction
1
Baba G. Jallow
Chapter 2
Hastings Kamuzu Banda: How the Cold War Sustained Bad
Leadership in Malawi, 1964–1994
27
Paul Chiudza Banda
Chapter 3
Ahmed Sékou Touré: The Tyrant Hero
45
Muhamed Kamil
Chapter 4
The Quest to Reform the African State: The Case of
William R. Tolbert Jr of Liberia, and Jerry Rawlings
of Ghana
61
Maavi Norman
Chapter 5
“The Bishop Is Governor Here”: Bishop Nicholas Djomo
and Catholic Leadership in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo
97
J. J. Carney
Chapter 6
“I Will Be a Hummingbird”: Lessons in Radical
Transformative Leadership from Professor Wangari Maathai
123
Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Chapter 7
Nelson Mandela: Personal Characteristics and
Reconciliation-Oriented Leadership
143
Daniel Lieberfeld
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C O N T E N T S
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Chapter 8
Patriarchy,
Power Distance, and Female Presidency in
Liberia
169
Robtel Neajai Pailey
Chapter 9
Female Presidents in Africa: New Norms in Leadership or
Reflection of Current Practice
189
Dorcas Ettang
Chapter 10
Leading through a Medicinal Plant: Transforming-Servant-
Leadership among African Women in Portland, Oregon
211
Evelyne A. Ello Hart
Chapter 11
Academic Leadership in Africa
237
Joseph R. A. Ayee
Notes on Contributors
269
Index
275
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LEADERSHIP
IN
POSTCOLONIAL
AFRICA
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Leadership in postcolonial Africa : trends transformed by
independence / edited by Baba G. Jallow.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–1–137–47811–5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Leadership—Africa. 2. Africa—Politics and government—
21st century. I. Jallow, Baba Galleh, editor.
HD57.7.L433266 2014
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Chapter 1
Leadership in Postcolonial Africa:
An Introduction
Baba G. Jallow
I
n
Leadership in Colonial Africa , we demonstrated the existence
of three main types of leader in African colonies and how their
interaction culminated in the attainment of African indepen-
dence. We also explicitly rejected the theoretical exceptionalism
that Western leadership studies theory is not suitable for the study
of African leadership. We argued that theories of transformational,
transactional, and servant leadership may be used and have been
used (Ello-Hart, Ngunjiri, and Lieberfeld, this volume; Jallow
2014; Saunders 2014) to study leaders like Nkrumah, Mandela,
Zuma, Mugabe, and Wangari Maathai among others. We also
suggested that organizational culture and information processing
theories both lay out for us the physical nature of African govern-
ments as macroorganizations and help us put the spotlight into
the heads of our leaders (Bolman and Deal 2003; Brown et al.
2004; Schein 2010). In other words, we made the case that Africa
too needs “the theoretical benefits to be gained from a better
understanding of organizations” (Scott 1987). The teachings of
James Macgregor Burns, Warren Bennis, John Gardner, Barnard
Bass, Barbara Kellerman, and Boas Shamir, among many other
leadership studies scholars, might have been inspired by Western
experiences, but they address the human condition everywhere.
That said, and as also mentioned in Leadership in Colonial
Africa , first experiments in African
leadership studies like this
project should not be expected to draw too much on leadership
studies theory. Few of the contributors to this volume and to
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