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Leadership in Postcolonial Africa

Trends Transformed by Independence

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  • © 2014

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  1. Baba G. Jallow
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in African Leadership (PSAL)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Leadership in Postcolonial Africa: An Introduction

    • Baba G. Jallow
    Pages 1-25

  3. Hastings Kamuzu Banda: How the Cold War Sustained Bad Leadership in Malawi, 1964–1994

    • Paul Chiudza Banda
    Pages 27-44

  4. Ahmed Sékou Touré: The Tyrant Hero

    • Muhamed Kamil
    Pages 45-59

  5. The Quest to Reform the African State: The Case of William R. Tolbert Jr of Liberia, and Jerry Rawlings of Ghana

    • Maavi Norman
    Pages 61-95

  6. “The Bishop Is Governor Here”: Bishop Nicholas Djomo and Catholic Leadership in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    • J. J. Carney
    Pages 97-122

  7. “I Will Be a Hummingbird”: Lessons in Radical Transformative Leadership from Professor Wangari Maathai

    • Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
    Pages 123-141

  8. Nelson Mandela: Personal Characteristics and Reconciliation-Oriented Leadership

    • Daniel Lieberfeld
    Pages 143-167

  9. Patriarchy, Power Distance, and Female Presidency in Liberia

    • Robtel Neajai Pailey
    Pages 169-187

  10. Female Presidents in Africa: New Norms in Leadership or Reflection of Current Practice

    • Dorcas Ettang
    Pages 189-210

  11. Leading through a Medicinal Plant: Transforming-Servant-Leadership among African Women in Portland, Oregon

    • Evelyne A. Ello Hart
    Pages 211-235

  12. Academic Leadership in Africa

    • Joseph R. A. Ayee
    Pages 237-267

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 269-279
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Leadership in Post-Colonial Africa examines the leadership concepts and lessons that emerged during and after the attainment of independence with insightful studies of Africa's first female presidents, gangster elitism, Nelson Mandela, and beyond.

About the authors

Baba G. Jallow, Creighton University, USA Muhammed Kamil, Spheres Publishers & Producers, Nigeria Maavi Norman, Northwestern University, USA Daniel Lieberfeld, Duquesne University, USA Paul Banda, University of Malawi, Malawi Dorcas Ettang, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Robtel Pailey, independent researcher, Liberia Edlyne E. Anugwom, University of Nigeria, Nigeria Jay Carney, Creighton University, USA Faith Ngunjiri, Concordia College, USA Evelyne Ello Hart, Gonzaga University, USA Joseph Ayee, Mont Crest University College, Ghana

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