Contents
1. Introduction
Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng'weno and Helen Spencer-Oatey
Part 1: Foundations
2. Global leadership: key concepts and frameworks
Helen Spencer - Oatey
3. Leadership in Africa: Past, Present & Future Perspectives
Estelle-Marie Heussen - Montgomery and Eva Jordans
4. The Historical, Political and Demographic Context of Leadership in Africa
Bettina Ng'weno
Part 2: Case Studies and Survey findings
5. Methodology
Eva Jordans and Helen Spencer-Oatey
6. Young Leaders transforming Science in Ghana
Yaw Bediako and Eva Jordans
7. Leadership and culture in corporate organisations in Nigeria
Ike Nwankwo, Estelle-Marie Heussen - Montgomery and Eva Jordans
8. Bridging the generation gap: Perceptions of leadership by senior and young leaders in Tanzania
Mwatima Juma and Eva Jordans
9. Changing leadership perceptions: Leaders in the private sector in Kenya
Kanini Mutooni, Bettina Ng'weno and Eva Jordans
10. Emerging People-oriented Leadership in Rural development in Rwanda
Joseph K. Nsabimana and Eva Jordans
11. Leadership development needs and experiences: Survey findings
Helen Spencer-Oatey and Daniel Dauber
Part 3: Implications and applications
12. Understanding leadership and its development in Africa
Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng'weno and Helen Spencer-Oatey
About the Author: Eva Jordans has been an executive company director, a professional consultant, and a management trainer in both the public and private sectors. She has over 25 years of experience supporting leadership and institutional development in Asia, Africa and Europe. She has a track record in international project management, global leadership development and executive directorship. She currently works as an independent management consultant supporting development programs across Africa and Asia.
Dr. Bettina Ng 'weno is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, USA. Trained as an anthropologist she works on issues of space, property, race and ethnicity, social justice, citizenship and states within Latin America and Africa. She authored the book Turf Wars: Territory and Citizenship in the Contemporary State (2007) and is currently the co-director of the Mellon research initiative Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds.
Dr. Helen Spencer-Oatey is Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. She works on issues of communicating and relating across social groups. Her books, both monographs and edited collections, include Culturally Speaking (2000/2008); Handbook of Intercultural Communication (2008, with Helga Kotthoff); Intercultural Interaction (2009, with Peter Franklin); and Intercultural Politeness (forthcoming, with Daniel Kádár).
