Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Tables vi
4. Figures vii
5. Acronyms viii
6. Prologue: Leadership on the African continent ix
7. PART 1 INTRODUCING TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP AND ITS PRECURSORS
8. 1. From beating the odds to changing the odds: Developing a shared understanding of what is meant by transformative leadership 1
9. 2. Academic understandings of transformative leadership 19
10. 3. Leadership and identity in precolonial African contexts: A retrospective account 41
11. PART 2 TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP IN EVERYDAY CONTEXTS
12. 4. The Spirit of Kanju: Young Africans amplifying leadership through documentary film work 57
13. 5. Blockchain applications: A pathway to decentralised, autonomous, and transformative leadership 74
14. 6. Transformative leadership from abroad: Marguerite Barankitse and the Burundian refugee community 91
15. 7. What amaXhosa leadership practices can offer to the discourse on transformative leadership 107
16. 8. Ubuntu as a resource for transformative leadership in southern Africa 121
17. PART 3 LEADERSHIP AND GENDER/FEMINISM
18. 9. Women and leadership in African contexts: A review 135
19. 10. We should all be African feminists: Feminism as an integral part of transformative leadership 155
20. PART 4 LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
21. 11. Iterations of transformative leadership for higher education in Africa 171
22. 12. Transformative leadership in resource-constrained schools in South Africa 193
23. 13. Learning transformative leadership through student activism in Kenya 207
24. 14. Using transformative leadership to ‘nibble at resilient colonialism’: An autoethnographic account of student–faculty experiences 223
25. PART 5 LEADERSHIP AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMMES ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
26. 15. Walking the talk: Shaping a transformative approach to evaluation of leadership fellowship programmes 243
27. 16. Climbing the hill: The burden of development placed on scholarship recipients 262
28. 17. Leadership for whom? Interrogating the effectiveness of leadership programmes in Africa 278
29. 18. Emergent decolonial development and youth-focused leadership development programmes 290
30. PART 6 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
31. 19. Transforming the political: Towards a transformative concept of political leadership in Africa 307
32. 20. Transformative leadership in Africa: Lessons from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ’s leadership stints in Liberia 330
33. 21. Transformative leadership in unconventional terrain: Examining the personality, values, and vision of Jerry John Rawlings of Ghana 345
34. PART 7 APPLYING UBUNTU TO TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
35. 22. Transformative disability leadership in the Global South: Insights from ubuntu philosophy 365
36. 23. Ubuntu leadership in a technological age 380
37. 24. Transformative social innovation leadership, an ubuntu-infused approach for future African public sector leaders 395
38. PART 8 A CALL TO ACTION
39. 25. A forward-looking ethics of transformative leadership: Rebuilding societies in the 21st century 411
40. 26. Tame, erode, rupture, or exit: Strategies for transformative change 429
41. Contributors 447
42. Index 452