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  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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  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

Copyright © Baba G. Jallow, 2014.

All rights reserved.

First published in 2014 by

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ISBN: 978–1–137–47811–5 

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     Leadership in postcolonial Africa : trends transformed by 

 independence / edited by Baba G. Jallow.

   pages 

cm

    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

960.3

Ј20922—dc23 2014025560

A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.

Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.

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     Chapter 1 

 Leadership in Postcolonial Africa: 

An Introduction   

    Baba G.   Jallow    

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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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