Globalisation and Leadership in Africa: Developments and Challenges for the Future

133 Pages·2019·1.5 MB·English

by  Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah

Globalisation and
Leadership in Africa
Developments
and Challenges for
the Future
Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
Globalisation and Leadership in Africa
Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
Globalisation and
Leadership in Africa
Developments and Challenges for the Future
Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
Lagos Business School
Pan-Atlantic University
Lagos, Nigeria
ISBN 978-3-319-98763-7 ISBN 978-3-319-98764-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98764-4
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P
reface
The idea of a book that discusses the topics globalisation and leadership
together came out of my participation at the Young African Leaders
Initiative (YALI) organised by the US government for selected young
Africans who have the potential to lead in the transformation of leadership
in the continent. I was one of the facilitators in the leadership sessions and
I listened to all the facilitators as they expounded the concept of leader-
ship in its various forms, and also talked about leadership failures in the
African continent. Prior to this experience, I knew that there was the
debate between the anti-globalists and pro-globalists on whether globali-
sation failed in Africa and the likely reasons for its failure. After the semi-
nar, I concluded that I needed to write a book that discusses the topics
leadership and globalisation together to truly understand what happened
in Africa.
There are two reasons for writing this book. The first reason is to
understand globalisation process in the context of leadership behaviour
in Africa from the precolonial era to the postcolonial era. In doing this, I
utilised empirical and theoretical information to infer if globalisation
actually failed in Africa and the role played by African leaders in such
failure. The second reason arose from the existence of current world
events that are shaping the new face of globalisation in which emphasis is
shifting from world control to regional and sub-regional control. The
new face of globalisation will offer opportunities for nations to take their
destiny into their hands, and so I argued in this book that Africa cannot
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achieve meaningful development in the new face of globalisation unless
Africa has l eaders who are able and willing to take up the challenge of
governance from a servant perspective.
Lagos, Nigeria Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah
c
ontents
1 I ntroduction: Globalisation, Development, and Leadership 1
2 The Origin and Development of Globalisation in the World 11
3 Current World Events That Are Threatening the
Globalisation Process 25
4 The New Face of Globalisation 41
5 African Leadership Process in the Development of
Globalisation 55
6 The New Face of Globalisation: Effects on Leadership in
Africa 75
7 Servant Leadership: A Solution to Leadership Challenges in
Africa 91
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8 African Governance Structure: Institutionalizing Servant
Leadership Behaviour 105
Index 119
L a
ist of cronyms
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation
ARC African Risk Capacity
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
AU African Union
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation
BC Before Christ
BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, China
CNN Cable News Network
EAC East African Community
ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
EU European Union
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP Gross Domestic Product
HDI Human Development Index
IMF International Monetary Fund
INEC Independent National Electoral Commission
LAS League of Arab States
MDC Movement for Democratic Change
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
SADC South African Development Community
SAP Structural Adjustment Programme
SCT Social Contagion Theory
SIT Social Identity Theory
UAE United Arab Emirates
USA United States of America
VBL Value-Based Leadership
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